castabara

Updated: January 27, 2026

The Spaniards found these animals as ready to share their dangers as did the people of Colophon or Castabara, who trained cohorts of dogs for war; for the dogs were always in the lead and never shirked a fight.

- De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2): The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera