• Krafty Kactus@sopuli.xyz
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    5 months ago

    Seeing as the dachshund was bred in the 1600s, I don’t think Greek mythology would have included it. It would be like saying the trojan war might have had muskets because the Iliad doesn’t say they didn’t have them.

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        My dad got the “cave canem” dog mosaic as a coaster when he visited Pompeii. He also put a “cave canem” sign above the dog house, which made most of the people walking by think his name was Cave.

        People don’t know much Latin even in college towns.

  • 𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    No, but a popular internet theory has his name meaning “spotted one” and whether or not it’s actually entomologically true, is always a fun thought. To think a god of the underworld played fetch with spot, the goodest multi-headed boi