graecus

Updated: May 7, 2025

This wonderful parchment now preserved at Rossano is mentioned for the first time by Cesare Malpica, who wrote some interesting things about the Albanian and Greek colonies in Calabria, but it was only discovered, in the right sense of that word, in March 1879 by Gebhardt and Harnack. They illustrated it in their Evangeliorum Codex Graecus.

Norman Douglas - Old Calabria

Mr. Richardson, in his History of the Greyhound, gives a different derivation of the name of this dog. He says that the 'greyhound' was of Grecian origin 'cannis Graecus', that 'Graecus' was not unfrequently written 'Graeius', and thence was derived the term 'greyhound'. This derivation, however, is somewhat too far-fetched.

William Youatt - The Dog