sagaces

By most authors who have inquired into the origin of these varieties of the dog, the 'sagaces' have been generally assigned to Greece -- the 'pugnaces' to Asia -- and the 'celeres' to the Celtic nations.

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(fighting) and the 'sagaces' (intelligent) -- the more ferocious dogs, and those who artfully circumvented and caught their prey -- was known in the earlier periods of Greek and Roman history, but that the 'celeres', the dogs of speed, the greyhounds of every kind, were peculiar to the

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'sagaces' and 'celeres', will be best given when treating of their present state and comparative value.

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On the whole, Ritter seems right, after Acron, in understanding curae sagaces of the counsels of Augustus, whom Horace compliments similarly in the Fourteenth Ode of this Book, as the real author of his step - son's victories.

The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace 65 BC-8 BC Horace 1847

British Constitution as if they had been twinned together in the womb, -- _mire sagaces fallere hospites discrimen obscurum_.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

'pugnaces' and the 'sagaces' are mentioned; but the 'celeres' -- the swift-footed -- are not spoken of as a peculiar breed.

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