Chap. 61.] DOGS. 3l3 



his dog refused to take food, and died of famine. A dog, to 

 which Darius gives the name of Hyrcanus, upon the' funeral 

 pile of King Lysimachns heing lighted, threw itself into the 

 flames,' and the dog of King Hiero did the same. Philistus 

 also gives a similar account of Pyrrhus, the dog of the tyrant 

 Gelon : and it is said, also, that the dog of Nicomedes, king of 

 Bithynia, tore Consingis,'" the wife of that king, in consequence 

 of her wanton hehaviour, when toying with her husband. 



Among ourselves, Volcatius, a man of rank, who instructed 

 CasceUius in the civil law," as he was riding on his Asturian 

 jennet, towards evening,. from his country-house, was attacked 

 by a robber, and was only saved by his dog. The senator 

 Caelius,"' too, while lying sick at Placentia, was surprised by 

 armed men, but received not a wound from them until they 

 had first killed his dog. But a more extraordinary fact than 

 all, is what took pla.ce in our own times, and is testified by the 

 public register of the Eoman people. In the consulship of 

 Appius Junius and P. Silius, when Titius Sabinus" was put to 



s This anecdote is referred to hy ^lian, Anim. Nat. B. vi. c. 25. He 

 gives an account of the dog of Gelon, Anim. Kat. B. vi. c. 62, and Yar. 

 Hist. B. i. c. 13.— B. 



"> Tzetzes, Chil. iii. of his History, calls hei Ditizela, and thus alludes 

 to this story : " The said Nicomedes had a dog of very large size, and of 

 Molossian Dreed, which manifested great fidelity to him. One day seeing 

 his mistress, the wife of Nicomedes, and the mother of Prusias, Zielus, and 

 Ljsandra, Ditizela, by name, and a Phrygian by birth, toying with, the 

 king, he took her for an enemy, ^d rushing on her, tore her right shoul- 

 der." It is supposed that she died of the injuries thus received. Some 

 editions call her Condingis, and others Cosingis. 



*^ A. CasceUius was an eminent Boman jurist, but nothing seems to be 

 known of his preceptor, Volcatius, whose praenomen is thought to have been 

 Mucins. CasceUius was noted for his great eloquence and his stern re- 

 publican principles ; and of Caesar's conduct and government he spoke with 

 the greatest freedom. He never advanced in civic honours beyond the 

 quaestorship, though he was offered the consulship by Augustus ; which he 

 declined. He is frequently quoted in the Digest. Horace, in his Art of 

 Poetry, U. 371, 372^ pays a compliment to the legal reputation of 

 CasoelUus, who is also mentioned by Valerius Maximus and Macrobius. 



'* From ^lian. Hist. Anim. B. vii. c. 10, it appears that his name was 

 Caelius Calvus, but probably no further particulars are known of him. 



" He was a distinguished Roman eques, and a friend of Germanicus ; 

 for which reason he incurred the hatred of Sejanus. To satisfy the ven- 

 geance of Tiberius and his favourite Sejanus, one Latinus Latiaris, a sup- 

 posed friend of Sabinus, induced him to speak in unguarded terms of 

 Sejanus and Tiberius, and then betrayed his confidence. He was put to 

 death in prison. 



