Orion’s Dogs; one was named “Arctoph’onos” and the other “Pto-ophagos.”

Punch’s Dog, “Toby.”

Sir W. Scott’s Dogs.  His deer-hound was “Maida.”  His jet-black greyhound was “Hamlet.”  He had also two Dandy Dinmont terriers.

Dog of the seven Sleepers, “Katmir.”  It spoke with a human voice.

In Sleary’s circus, the performing dog is called “Merryleys.”—­C.  Dickens, Hard Times.

(For Actaeon’s fifty dogs, see Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 234).

Dog.  The famous Mount St. Bernard dog which saved forty human beings, was named “Barry.”  The stuffed skin of this noble creature is preserved in the museum at Berne.

Dog (The), Diogenes the cynic (B.C. 412-323).  When Alexander encountered him, the young Macedonian king introduced himself with the words, “I am Alexander, surnamed ‘the Great.’” To which the philosopher replied, “And I am Diogenes, surnamed ‘the Dog.’” The Athenians raised to his memory a pillar of Parian marble, surmounted with a dog, and bearing the following inscription:—­

  “Say, dog, what guard you in that tomb?”
  A dog.  “His name?” Diogenes.  “From far?”

  Sinope, “He who made a tub his home?”
  The same; now dead, among the stars a star.

Dog (The Thracian), Zo’ilus the grammarian; so called for his snarling, captious criticisms on Homer, Plato, and Isocrates.  He was contemporary with Philip of Macedon.

Dogs.  The two sisters of Zobei’de (3 syl.) were turned into little black dogs for casting Zobeide and “the prince” into the sea (See ZOBEIDE).

DOGS OF WAR, Famine, Sword, and Fire: 

  Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,
  Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels,
  Leashed in like hounds, should Famine, Sword, and Fire
  Crouch for employment.

Shakespeare, King Henry V.  I chorus (1599).

DOG-HEADED TRIBES (of India), mentioned in the Italian romance of Gueri’no Meschi’no.

DOGBERRY AND VERGES, two ignorant conceited constables, who greatly mutilate their words.  Dogberry calls “assembly” dissembly; “treason” he calls perjury; “calumny” he calls burglary; “condemnation” redemption; “respect,” suspect.  When Conrade says, “Away! you are an ass;” Dogberry tells the town clerk to write him down “an ass.”  “Masters,” he says to the officials, “remember I am an ass.”  “Oh, that I had been writ down an ass!” (act. iv. sc. 2).—­Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1600.)

DOGGET, wardour at the castle of Garde Doloureuse.—­Sir W. Scott, The Betrothed (time, Henry II.).

DOGGET’S COAT AND BADGE, the great prize in the Thames rowing-match, given on the 1st of August every year.  So called from Thomas Dogget, an actor of Drury Lane, who signalized the accession of George I. to the throne by giving annually a waterman’s coat and badge to the winner of the race.  The Fishmongers’ company add a guinea to the prize.