Dog

or if, in praising the dog, one were to include the dog in heaven (Sirius), or Pan, because Pindar said, O blessed one, whom the Olympians call dog of the Great Mother, taking every form, or were to say that the dog is an honorable animal, since to be without a dog is most dishonorable.

Even the behavior of dogs proves that anger ceases towards those who humble themselves, for they do not bite those who sit down.

And the so faithful guarding of dogs, their so loving fawning upon their masters, their so great hatred of strangers, and their so incredible keenness of nose for tracking, their so great eagerness in hunting — what else does it mean but that they were begotten for the conveniences of men?

It is forbidden, then, to bring "the price of a dog" to the altar.

Such things the Pythagoreans too hinted at, allegorizing the dogs of Persephone as the planets, and the sea as the tear of Cronos.

And further, in what are called among them the processions of the gods, they carry round golden figures — two dogs, one hawk, and one ibis — and the four figures of the statues they call four letters.

For I know that of dogs too, those well-trained and industrious, when they are loosed, at once seek out the trail, and not even if all should call them back would they ever leave it;

And yet no one, thinking a dog bad, seeks it when it has run off, but men even cast it out if it comes back;

' A goat said to a dog, its awakener:

smite away the godless, unpropitious dog, as the Bhṛgus smote the niggard.

Smite away the long-tongued dog.

“Whether the owner of a dog is answerable in trespass for every unauthorized entry of the animal into the land of another, as is the case with an ox,” is a point still not clearly decided.

If the animal is of a tame and domestic kind, the owner is liable only on proof that he knew the particular animal to be “accustomed to bite mankind,” as the common form of pleading ran in the case of dogs, or otherwise vicious;

There the plaintiff’s and the defendant’s dogs were fighting:

But the undiscerning man who eats before giving to these, he does not know, while eating, that he himself is being devoured by dogs and vultures.

For dogs, for outcastes, for dog-keepers, for those afflicted with sinful diseases, for crows, and for insects, he should gently place food on the ground.

130[128M] // The meat of an animal killed by dogs, Manu has declared to be pure, and that killed by other carnivorous animals, and by Caṇḍālas and other robbers.

A big dog will seldom attack a little dog in possession of a bone.

In a battle between a dog and a rat, the dog sometimes retires.

So, cats like the scent of verbena and musk.

And because he ran so fast, when he was found, you used to have other dogs trained to catch him by coursing.

And tell me—if any one should pet your dogs, which you have been training for the protection of yourself and yours, and make them more familiar with himself than with you, would he please you with such petting?

After the sea-fight at Naxos, the garrison-commander Nicocles, being plotted against, made the ascents closed and posted guards on the wall, and made his rounds outside the city with dogs;

Best of all, on such nights, is to have dogs tied up outside the wall, passing the night there, who would reveal from afar the enemy's spy or deserter approaching the city secretly, or anyone setting out to desert;

But one must take thought beforehand about the dogs, lest by the whistle there be some disadvantage from them.

Even though it swims in the Gaṅgā, a dog does not deserve to become pure;

Swift as the wind, swift as the mind — that chariot with the tail of the spotted antelope and the tail of the dog:

Sing toward the spotted one, the yellow one, the well-pulling dog;

and toward the barking dogs keep making your whimpering sound.

For neither does the man bitten by a mad dog, who sees the dog in the cup, see more than those who are healthy;

but in respect of distinguishing what is beneficial, just as among herbs we separate the harmful from the suitable, so among meats we distinguish the harmful from the useful.

Dogs should be shut up by day, so that they may be keener and more watchful by night.

Some are distinguished in one way, some in another, and for this reason they differ in their senses also, hawks for instance being most keen-sighted, and dogs having a most acute sense of smell.

On that day tame sheep and shambling, horned oxen, and the sharp-fanged dog and hardy mules to the touch of the hand.

First give the dogs their dinner at the courtyard gate, for this is well.

But whether an innocent citizen may be given up into the hands of an enemy to avoid imminent destruction, which would otherwise fall upon the state, is a point that has been formerly, and is still disputed by the learned, according to the beautiful fable, which Domosthenes told of the wolves, who demanded of the sheep the surrender of the dogs, as the only terms of peace.

and overtaking them, they poured around them like many dogs or like wicked, man-hating beasts;

Just as a man who rears dogs or birds tamed for the hunt appears to flatter them before the chase,

Light-sleeping dogs with faithful heart in breast,

Soc. No, by dog, Hippias—not past the man before whom I should be most ashamed of talking nonsense and pretending that I was talking sense when I was not.

These were the views which, at that time, caused these thinkers to incur many charges of atheism and much odium, and which also incited the poets to abuse them by likening philosophers to dogs howling at the moon, with other such senseless slanders.

Or again, is it not the men who know how to make dogs into the best dogs that know also how to punish them rightly?

And so it would be, if one were a dog?

Or does each person love these things, while yet failing to make friends of them, and was it a lying poet who said— Happy to have your children as friends, and your trampling horses, Scent-snuffing hounds, and a host when you travel abroad?

There is a certain possession that I have desired from my childhood, as every one does in his own way.