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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 Lysimachus being 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 behaviour, when toying with her husband. 
Among ourselves, Yolcatius, a man of rank, who instructed 
Cascellius 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 place 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 
9 This anecdote is referred to by JElian, Anim. Nat. B. vi. c. 25. He 
gives an account of the dog of Gelon, Anim. Nat. B. vi. c. 62, and Var. 
Hist. B, i. c. 13.— B. 
Tzetzes, Chil. iii. of his History, calls her Ditizela, and thus alludes 
to this story : " The said Nicomedes had a dog of very large size, and of 
Molossian breed, which manifested great fidelity to him. One day seeing 
his mistress, the wife of Nicomedes, and the mother of Prusias, Zielus, and 
Lysandra, Ditizela, by name, and a Phrygian by birth, toying with the 
king, he took her for an enemy, and 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. Cascellius was an eminent Roman jurist, but nothing seems to be 
known of his preceptor, Volcatius, whose prainomen is thought to have been 
Mucins. Cascellius 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 
qusestorship, though he was offered the consulship by Augustus ; which he 
declined. He is frequently quoted in the Digest. Horace, in his Art of 
Poetry, 11. 371, 372, pays a compliment to the- legal reputation of 
Cascellius, who is also mentioned by Valerius Maximus and Macrobius. 
12 From -Lilian, Hist. Anim. B. vii. c. 10, it appears that his name was 
Caelius Calvus, but probably no further particulars are known of him. 
13 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. 
