Identifier: newbookofdogcomp01leig (find matches)
Title: The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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unds somewhat resembling our Lurcher.Xenophon records two species of Spartandogs. Reference is made to their use* Modern Painters. in battle, for which purpose they weresometimes provided with spiked collars,so that the dogs of war was no merefigure of speech. At Marathon one ofthese dogs gave such assistance to its masterthat its effigy was engraved upon his tablet.Plutarch, in his life of Themistocles, has apretty reference to a dog which perishedin swimming after its master who had aban-doned it, and who, in remorse, afterwardsgave it a decent burial. The Greeks madesacrifice of dogs to the gods of Olympus.The mythical three-headed dog Cerberus wassupposed to guard the entrance to Hadesand to watch at the feet of Pluto, to whichdeity a dog and a youth were periodicallysacrificed. A great number of dogs weredestroyed in Samothrace in honour of thegoddess Hecate. Among the Romans, also, dogs were atcertain periods sacrificed to the gods. Atthe festival of Robigalia, April 25th, a dog
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GR/ECO-ROMAN GROUP OF DOGS OF GREYHOUNDTYPE. FOUND AT MONTE CAGNOLO. NEAR THEANCIENT LANUVIUM.(British Museum.) was offered at the fifth milestone on theVia Claudia.* The Romans were fairly ad-vanced in their knowledge of the dog andhis uses. So much so that a classification * W. Warde Fowler : Roman Festivals of theRepublican Period. H THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. was drawn up. Three main divisions wererecognised : (i) Canes villatica, or watch-dogs ; (2) Canes pastorales, or sheep-dogs ; (3) Canes venatici, hunting dogs ;which were further subdivided into pug-naces, to attack the quarry; nare sagaces,to track it out; and pedibus celcres, to over-take it. In their commerce with distantcountries the Romans acquired new breedsfor particular uses or to improve their ownkennels. Symmachus mentions the pres-ence of British pugnaccs (which were nodoubt Mastiffs) at the Coliseum in Rome,and Claudian refers to- boasted much. He said, Long will it bebefore you hunt like this ! They assem-bled and

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