Laconian hounds
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
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.
As soon as the hound reaches the lair, she will bark.
For hunting the wild boar provide yourself with Indian, Cretan, Locrian and Laconian hounds, boar nets, javelins, spears and caltrops.
The huntsmen also will find many evidences of the quarry, the tracks in soft ground, broken branches where the bushes are thick, and marks of his tusks wherever there are trees.