A conundrum of cats

Pantechnes, Constantine, metropolitan of Philippopolis Timotheos of Gaza, grammarian Diegesis ton tetrapodon zoon, poem. Eastern Mediterranean; Argues that the Greek term pardos primarily referred to a cheetah rather than a leopard, examining characteristic references to the pard in Byzantine literature, such as Constantine Pantechnes's Ekphrasis, the zoological writings of Theodore of Gaza and the 14c. poem Diegesis ton tetrapodon zoon. With translation of the relevant passage of the Ekphrasis