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;

' A goat said to a dog, its awakener:

Smite away the long-tongued dog.

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

“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.

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

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

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?

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

and toward the barking dogs keep making your whimpering sound.

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

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

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,

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?

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

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?

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?

for dogs are not properly to be counted among gregarious creatures.

Drive away the ungrateful dog;

Drive away the dog who lacks generosity;

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

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.

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.

besides, candelabra and lamps, and some dogs, and morsels to make them stretch to the overturning of the lamps.

mark them diligently, so that, when the darkness falls at the dogs' overturning of the lamps, you may not go astray.

We are called the most criminal of men, on the score of the sacrament of infant-murder, and the feeding upon it, and the incest that follows the banquet, where the dogs — the pimps of darkness, forsooth — overturn the lamps and procure a shamelessness for our impious lusts.

For one who has been sniffed or licked by a dog, or scratched by its claws, // Par_5.

Washing with water is prescribed, and heating with fire. // Par_5.6 //

When the moon is not visible at all during the dark fortnight, one should look in the direction in which the moon travels. // Par_5.8 //