Quare de canibus quoniam genera duo, unum venaticum et pertinet ad feras bestias silvestres, alterum quod custodiae causa paratur et pertinet ad pastorem, dicam de eo ad formam artis expositam in novem partes.
As there are, then, two sorts of dogs'the hunting-dog suited to chase the beasts of the forest, and the other which is procured as a watch-dog and is of importance to the shepherd'I shall speak of the latter under nine divisions, according to the scientific division which has been set forth.
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