"Sed cum consumpti dominus cor quæreret Apri
Impatiens, fertur (cor) rapuisse coquus."
[27] In Du Cange, too, "aper significat diabolum; Papias M. S. Bitur. Ex illo Scripturæ: 'Singularis aper egressus est de silva.'"—Cfr. also Uhland's Schriften zur Geschichte der Dichtung und Sage, iii. 141, et seq.
[28] ii. 220, et seq., quoted by Uhland.
[29] Leukophôs; a verse of Vilkelmus Brito defines it in a Latin strophe given in Du Cange—
"Tempore quo neque nox neque lux sed utrumque videtur;"
and further on—
"Interque canem distare lupumque."
According to Pliny and Solinus, the shadow of the hyena makes the dog dumb, i.e., the night disperses the twilight; the moon vanishes.
[30] The dog was sacred to the huntress Diana, whom we know to be the moon, hence the Latin proverb, "Delia nota canibus."
[31] Indrasya dûtir ishitâ ćarâmi maha ićhantî paṇayo nidhîn vaḥ; str. 2.