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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 5 (of 6)

Note 2623 — BOOK XXIX. REMEDIES DERIVED FROM LIVING CREATURES.

John Bostock translation

“For the manner of a dog is to bee angrie with the stone that is thrown at him, without regard to the partie that flung it, whereupon grew the proverb in Greeke, κύων εἰς τὸν λίθον ἀγανακτοῦσα (‘A dog venting his rage upon a stone.’)”—Holland.

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