Dog

And those things are wonderful, that — the very things which lately, that is, a few ages ago, were discovered by the genius of physicians — the dogs cure themselves by vomiting, but the Egyptian ibises by purging the bowels.

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;

that is, that some tribes are called by the names of animals, such as the Banū Asad, the Banū al-Namir and the Banū Kalb and the like.

the elephant's kunyah is Abū Ḥajjāj, the lion's Abū al-Ḥārith, the wolf's Abū Jaʻdah, the bear's Abū Rabāḥ, the pig's Abū Qādim — and it is said Abū ʻUqbah — the fox's Abū al-Ḥuṣayn, the dog's Abū Khālid and, with some of them, Abū Nāṣiḥ.

and if it was a dog, he construed in it watchfulness, vigilance, a voice that carries, and gain.

' 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?

And when you know this, there is no doubt that the intelligent man does not choose the state of dogs and the pig over the deeds of the angels brought near, nor choose the lowest depth of the Fire over the highest abode in the abode of permanence.

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.

So if he is skilled in the craft of hunting, and his steed well trained and his dog taught (4), the hunting goes for him [34] according to his wish.

[30] 4) In the original:

[30] 6) In the original:

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.

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,

So beware, O man, of being a thicket within your own frame, holding a snake that strikes and a scorpion that stings, a leopard that tears and a camel that nurses rancour, a dog that dodges and a hare that turns coward before the truth, thorns and thistles that hurt, a lion that preys, and an ape with no portion but mimicry. Rather it is for you to be a garden, holding water unstagnant that takes t …

Do you see any difference between such conduct and that of the dogs who snarl at the stones that hit them but don’t touch the thrower?

” and you say, “a beast of prey with foul breath”, it being distinguished by foul breath from the dog — for foul breath is among its properties, but among the hidden properties;

As forerunners for your pressed drink, the inebriating Soma, O friends, pierce and drive away the long-tongued dog.

Drive away the dog who lacks generosity;

Drive away the ungrateful dog;

For the altars of our city and our hearths have one and all been tainted by the birds and dogs with the carrion taken from the sadly fallen son of Oedipus.

All the cities are stirred up in hostility, whose mangled corpses the dogs, or the wild beasts or some winged bird buried, carrying an unholy stench to the city that held each man’s hearth.

I attended your husband as his guide to the furthest part of the plain, where unpitied the body of Polyneices, torn by dogs, still lay.