404Nor let care of dogs be last with you, but feed together the swift whelps of Sparta and the fierce Molossian on rich whey. 406Never, with them as guardians, will you fear for your stalls a thief by night and the onsets of wolves, or restless Iberians at your back. 409Often too you will chase timid wild asses in the course, and with dogs hunt the hare, with dogs the does; often you will rouse boars driven from their woodland wallows, harrying them with barking, and over the high mountains with shouting drive a huge stag into the nets.
Vergil · Georgics
Georgics 3.404–413
Dogs for guarding and hunting
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Vergil, Georgics. Latin text: J. B. Greenough, The Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Virgil (Boston, 1881), public domain; digital text from the Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA. Word analysis: drafted by our own tagger (trained on the hand-checked texts on this site), with every doubtful word checked by hand. English translation and section titles: written for this app, each checked against the Latin by a second reader.