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Erfurdt has justly observed, that the Greek poets have called the most fearful monsters dogs. In this place griffins are called dogs; a little further on, and in the Agamemnon, eagles are called dogs; in the Œdipus Tyrannus of Sophocles, the sphinx is called a dog; in the Hercules Furens of Euripides, the hydra is called a dog; in the Electra, both of Sophocles and Euripides, the Furies are called dogs; in Apollonius Rhodius, the Harpies are called dogs; in the Andromache of Euripides, (what a climax!) a woman is called a dog; and Synesius goes a step higher, and calls the Devil a dog: in short, Brutus did not know the strength of his own expression when he said that he would "rather be a dog."

Bishop Blomfield supposes the poet to be here speaking of the Catadupa of the Nile, where that river is precipitated from the mountains.

Bishop Blomfield notices this word in a learned and interesting manner in his Glossary. He observes that Adrastia is to be