Hunting dogs
animal · 3 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
dogs · hounds · hunting-dogs · the dogs · the hunter · watch-dogs
spoken of as
1 expressionHerd-dogs“hunting dogs”1 mention
Orations (Greek)
And having leisure from the cattle, they turned to hunting, partly by themselves, partly with dogs.
in the texts
Orations
Dogs used as a simile for how toils (personified) treat those who flee versus those who stand firm.
but if anyone despise them and approach boldly, it is not hard for cowardly and feeble men to master the strong—men most like dogs, which pursue and bite those who flee, and have torn to pieces some they overtook, but fear and retreat from those who come on and fight, and in the end fawn, when they have grown familiar.
And having leisure from the cattle, they turned to hunting, partly by themselves, partly with dogs.
And shortly after I thought I heard the baying of dogs above, scarcely audible through the noise from the sea.
De Rerum Natura
Dogs cited for their keen scent-tracking ability used in hunting, including the case where they are misled by a cooled trail.
Of scent in dogs doth lead the hunter on
Whithersoever the splay-foot of wild beast
So dogs oft wander astray, and hunt the scent.
Republic
Dogs used as a breeding and behavior analogy to justify both shared male/female roles and selective breeding among guardians.
I see that you have in your house hunting-dogs and a number of pedigree cocks.
Do we expect the females of watch-dogs to join in guarding what the males guard and to hunt with them and share all their pursuits or do we expect the females to stay indoors as being incapacitated by the bearing and the breeding of the whelps while the males toil and have all the care of the flock?