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Dogs in Ancient Warfare

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

E. S. Forster
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This passage has suggested that it might be interesting to collect, as far as possible, the passages dealing with the use of dogs in ancient warfare and make a comparison with modern practice. The references which I have discovered, and which seem mainly to refer to Greek warfare, are numerous, but no doubt there are others which I have failed to trace.

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Research Article
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Greece & Rome , Volume 10 , Issue 30 , May 1941 , pp. 114 - 117
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1941

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References

page 114 note 1 For similar use of dogs by the Cimmerians themselves see Bury, , History of Greece, p. 112Google Scholar, and the frieze on a sarcophagus of Clazomenae there reproduced.

page 116 note 1 In Livy, v. 47, we read that, when the Gauls came so near to capturing the Capitol, the dogs, unlike the geese, failed to notice their approach.

page 117 note 1 The nearest ancient approach to which was the sacred dogs of Adranus in Sicily, which saw drunken revellers safely home at night! (Aelian, , De Nat. Anim. xi. 20.Google Scholar)