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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 tlie 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 \q)on chariots. Jason, 
the Lycian, had a dogge, who, after his master was 
slain, would neuer eat meat, hut 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 passetb al, which 
happened in our time, and standeth vpon record in 
the puhlicke 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 Gerraanicus: one of them that died had 
a dogge, which could not be kept from the prison 
