ABSTRACT
CERTAINLY no animal except man has a better memory, for, however long and trackless journeys may be, dogs remember them over a lengthy period and can remind people of the routes. They avenge old injuries, too, even after a great interval of time. If they are restored to their old masters after a separation of twenty years, they bark their welcome. In the war with the Cimbri, dogs fought unyieldingly on their owners’ behalf against Gaius Marius. They guarded the Cimbrian corpses, and could never be driven away from them, but protected them with a wonderful, constant determination, and, in order to keep them in greater safety from wild beasts and birds, dragged them into the wagons that had been abandoned all over the field. They shared among themselves the duty of watching and performed it by turns with great conscientiousness.
