or Dog. See Mammalia.

Canis Major, the Great Dog, in Astronomy, a constellation of the southern hemisphere, below Orion's feet, though somewhat to the westward of him.

Canis Minor, the Little Dog, in Astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere; called also by the Greeks Procyon, and by the Latins Antecanus and Canicula.

CANSIUS, Henry, a native of Nimeguen, and one of the most learned men of his time, was professor of canon law at Ingolstadt, and wrote a number of books, the principal of which are, 1. Summa Juris Canonici; 2. Antique Lectiones, a very valuable work. He died in 1600.

CANTZ, the Baron of, a German poet and statesman, vol. vi.

was of an ancient and illustrious family in Brandenburg, and born at Berlin in 1654, five months after his father's death. Having completed his early studies, he travelled into France, Italy, Holland, and England; and, upon his return to his native country, was charged with important negotiations by Frederic II. Frederic III. also employed him. Cantz united the statesman with the poet; and was conversant in many languages, dead as well as living. His German poems were published for the tenth time in 1750, in 8vo. He is said to have taken Horace for his model, and to have written purely and delicately. But he did not content himself with barely cultivating the fine arts himself: he gave all the encouragement he could to others to follow the same pursuit. He died at Berlin in 1699, privy counsellor of state, aged forty-five.