Note 116 — THE WORKS AND DAYS.
George Chapman translation
Keep, too, a sharp-tooth’d dog.] Virgil has a more poetical passage on the same subject, Georg. iii. 404:
Nor last forget thy faithful dogs: but feed With fattening whey the mastiff’s generous breed And Spartan race, who for the fold’s relief Will prosecute with cries the nightly thief, Repulse the prowling wolf, and hold at bay The mountain robbers rushing to the prey. Dryden.