Note 352 — CANES VENATICI. Class I.
William Dansey translation
De Naturâ Animalium L. vii. c. xxxviii.
Ælian tells us of a war-dog, perhaps an Epirote, συστρατιώτην κύνα—who so distinguished himself with his Athenian lord at the battle of Marathon, as to be honoured with an effigy on the same tablet with his master.