Laconian hounds
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
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Orations
A breed of hunting dog from Laconia used as a simile for Diogenes' unappreciated worth.
On this account Diogenes said he resembled the Laconian hounds;
On Hunting
A hound breed used specifically as the tracking dog that finds the wild boar's trail and lair before the rest of the pack and nets are deployed.
For hunting the wild boar provide yourself with Indian, Cretan, Locrian and Laconian hounds, boar nets, javelins, spears and caltrops.
First then, when the company reach the place where they suppose the game to lurk, let them slip one of the Laconian hounds, and taking the others in leash, go round the place with the hound.
So take the hound and tie her up with the others at a good distance from the lair, and have the nets put up in the convenient anchorages, hanging the meshes on forked branches of trees.