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driue away both wild foule and sauage beaste from 

 seizing on his carkasse. There was a king of the 

 Garamants exiled, and recouered his royal state 

 againe, by the means of 200 dogges, that fought for 

 him against al those who made resistance, and brought 

 him home maugre his enemies. The Colophonians 

 and Castabalians maintained certaine squadrons of 

 mastiue dogges for their war seruice, and those were 

 put in the vanguard, to make the head and front of 

 the battell, and were neuer knowne to draw back 

 and refuse fight. These were their trustiest auxi- 

 laries, and aid soldiers, and neuer so greedy as to 

 call for pay. In a battell, when the Cimbrians were 

 defeated, and put all to the sword, their dogges de- 

 fended the baggage, yea, and their houses, (such as 

 they were,) caried ordinarily vpon chariots. Jason, 

 the Lycian,'had a dogge, who, after his master was 

 slain, would neuer eat meat, but pined himself to 

 death. Duris maketh mention of another dogge, 

 which he named Hircanus, that so soon as the fu- 

 nerall fire of king Lysimachus, his master, was set 

 a burning, leapt into the flame ; and so did another at 

 the funerall of king Hiero. But this passeth al, which 

 happened in our time, and standeth vpon record in 

 the publicke Registers, namely, in the yeare that Ap- 

 pius Junius and P. Silus were consuls ; at which 

 time as T. Sabinus and his seruants were executed 

 for an outrage committed vpon the person of Nero, 

 sonne of Germariicus: one of them that died had 

 a dogge, which could not be kept from the prison 



