A complete dictionary of the Greek and Roman antiquities explaining the obscure places in classic authors and ancient historians relating to the religion, mythology, history, geography and chronology of the ancient Greeks and Romans, their ... rites and customs, laws, polity, arts and engines of war : also an account of their navigations, arts and sciences and the inventors of them : with the lives and opinions of their philosophers / compiled originally in French ... by Monsieur Danet ; made English, with the addition of very useful mapps.

CANIS,

a Dog, an Animal which was kept in the Temple of Aesculapius, and which was consecrated to the God Pan. The Romans never fail'd to crucifie one of this Kind every Year, be∣cause the Dogs had not given Notice by their barking, of the Arrival of the Gauls, who be∣sieg'd the Capitol; which was intended for a Punishment to the Species; whereas on the con∣trary, to do Honour to a Goose, they carried one of Silver in an Elbow-Chair, laid upon a Pil∣low, because she had advertised them of the Coming of the Gauls by her Noise. Aelian re∣lates, that the Egyptians held the Dog in great Veneration, because they look'd upon it as a Symbol of the Coelestial Dog, whose rising gives encrease to the Nile. This Author says else∣where, that there was a Country in Ethiopia, where they had a Dog for their King, and they took his Fawnings or Barkings to be Signs of his Good-will; and for his Authors he cites Her∣mippus and Aristotle. Plutarch also speaks of this Dog which some of the Ethiopians held for a King, and to whom all the Nobility paid Ho∣mage.