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Namhafte Tiere in der Antike #2: Kapparos (405 Aufrufe)
Γραικύλος schrieb am 08.09.2020 um 16:51 Uhr (Zitieren)
Plutarch (ca. 45-125 u.Z.): Die Klugheit von Tieren (Moralia 969E- 970A)

A certain fellow slipped into the temple of Asclepius, took such gold and silver offerings as were not bulky, and made his escape, thinking that he had not been detected. But the watchdog, whose name was Capparus [Κάππαρος], when none of the sacristans responded to its barking, pursued the escaping temple-thief. First the man threw stones at it, but could not drive it away. When day dawned, the dog did not approach close, but followed the man, always keeping him in sight, and refused the food he offered. When he stopped to rest, the dog passed the night on guard; when he struck out again, the dog got up and kept following, fawning on the other people it met on the road and barking at the man and sticking to his heels.

When those who were investigating the robbery learned this from men who had encountered the pair and were told the colour and size of the dog, they pursued all the more vigorously and overtook the man and brought him back from Crommyon.

On the return the dog led the procession, capering and exultant, as though it claimed for itself the credit for pursuing and capturing the temple-thief. The People actually voted it a public ration of food and entrusted the charge of this to the priests in perpetuity [...].

(Plutarch, Moralia, Volume XII. Edited by Harold Cherniss and William C. Helmbold. Cambridge (Mass.)/London 1957, pp. 380-383)


Claudius Aelianus (ca. 170-235 u.Z.): Über Tiere VII 13

A temple-thief, who had waited for the midmost hour of night and had watched till men were deep asleep, came to the shrine of Asclepius and stole a number of offerings without, as he supposed, being seen. There was however in the temple an excellent watcher, a Dog, more awake than the attendants, and it gave chase to the thief and never stopped barking, as with all its might it summoned others to witness what he had done.

And so at first the thief and his companions in that crime pelted the Dog with stones; finally he dangled bread and cakes in front of it. He had been careful to bring these things with him as an attraction to Dogs, as he supposed. Since however the Dog continued to bark when the thief came to the house where he lodged and when he came out again, it was discovered where the Dog belonged, while the inscriptions and the places where the offerings were set up lacked the missing objects.

The Athenians therefore concluded that this man was the thief, and by putting him on the rack discovered the whole affair. And the man was sentenced in accordance with the law, while the Dog was rewarded by being fed and cared for at the public expense for being a faithful watcher and second to none of the attendants in vigilance.

(Aelian, On Animals. Volume II, edited by A. F. Scholfield. Cambridge (Mass.)/London 1959, pp. 118-121)

 
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