Hunting dogs
animal · 5 works · 6 mentions · 8 anchored passages
dogs · كلاب الصيد · hounds · hunting dogs · hunting-dogs · kilāb al-ṣayd · the dogs · the hunter · watch-dogs
spoken of as
1 expressionHerd-dogs“hunting dogs”1 mention
Orations (Greek)
And tasting the blood of boars and deer, and often eating the flesh, they at last unlearned their liking for barley-cake in favour of meat, filling themselves with it whenever something was caught, but going hungry when not, they gave more heed now to such fare, and pursued alike everything that appeared, and perceived a scent and a track somehow or other, and turned out, instead of herd-dogs, a k …
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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 tasting the blood of boars and deer, and often eating the flesh, they at last unlearned their liking for barley-cake in favour of meat, filling themselves with it whenever something was caught, but going hungry when not, they gave more heed now to such fare, and pursued alike everything that appeared, and perceived a scent and a track somehow or other, and turned out, instead of herd-dogs, a k …
And having leisure from the cattle, they turned to hunting, partly by themselves, partly with dogs.
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
Hunting dogs that carry prey to their masters unharmed in spite of their own hunger, cited as evidence that a pleasure beyond bodily appetite operates even in animals.
if there were no intellectual pleasure, the hunting dogs would not keep
what (1) they hunt, and deliver it to their masters sound of wound and injury, for all the gnawing of hunger in them.
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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
So dogs oft wander astray, and hunt the scent.
Whithersoever the splay-foot of wild beast
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
Hunting dogs adduced as evidence that non-sensory pleasure prevails even in brutes.
among hunting dogs there are those that take prey while hungry and then hold it for their master, and may even carry it to him;
Republic
Dogs used as a breeding and behavior analogy to justify both shared male/female roles and selective breeding among guardians.
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?
I see that you have in your house hunting-dogs and a number of pedigree cocks.