1894 Brewer’s / S / Spartan Dog
A blood-hound; a blood-thirsty man.
“O Spartan dog,
More fell than anguish, hunger, or the sea.”
Shakespeare: Othelto, v. ii.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.