From jbutrica@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Thu Nov 1 05:06:57 2001 Received: from mailscan6.cac.washington.edu (mailscan6.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.10) with SMTP id fA1D6tn174150 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 05:06:55 -0800 Received: FROM mxu3.u.washington.edu BY mailscan6.cac.washington.edu ; Thu Nov 01 05:06:54 2001 -0800 Received: from cerberus.ucs.mun.ca (cerberus.ucs.mun.ca [134.153.2.162]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.10) with ESMTP id fA1D6s217120 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 05:06:54 -0800 Received: from [134.153.128.98] (drusus.clas.mun.ca [134.153.128.98]) by cerberus.ucs.mun.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA10574 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 09:36:51 -0330 (NST) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 09:36:51 -0330 (NST) X-Sender: jbutrica@pop.morgan.ucs.mun.ca Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <1371408818.20011031184517@teleline.es> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: classics@u.washington.edu From: James Butrica Subject: Re: eating fried canaries >I live in Tenerife, Canary Islands, though I ain't from here, when one >goes to the History Museum in the capitol of this island the first >reference to ancient times in direct connection with the islands is >king Juba II of Mauritania who named them Canaries cause of the fine >breed of fight/guard dogs that ancients chased in here, by the way, the >dogs I mention are still in fashion around these waters. > >So in first instance, these islands take their name from a breed of >dogs, called here "Presa Canario" it's like a tiger skinned bulldog >but bigger in size and certainly fierce and savage in its attacks but >at the same time quite intelligent and loyal with its owners. > >Luis I haven't had a chance to check Pliny yet on this subject, but I gather from the Latin dictionary of Lewis & Short that he mentions HUMAN Canaries in Book 5, "a voracious people of Mauritania," according to the dictionary. I wonder whether Juba named them as well, and why they got that name. James Lawrence Peter Butrica Department of Classics The Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, Newfoundland A1C 5S7 (709) 737-7914 .