Tosefta for Avodah Zarah 108:19
אמר לו אמשול לך משל למה"ד למלך בשר ודם שהיה לו בן אחד ואותו הבן היה מגדל לו את הכלב והעלה לו שם על שם אביו וכשהוא נשבע אומר בחיי כלב אבא כששמע המלך על מי הוא כועס על הבן הוא כועס או על הכלב הוא כועס הוי אומר על הבן הוא כועס
He replied, “I will give you a parable: To what is the matter like? To a human king who had a son, and this son raised a dog and called it by his father’s name, so that whenever he took an oath he exclaimed, ‘By the life of this dog, my father!’ When the king hears of it, with whom is he angry, his son or the dog? Surely he is angry with his son!”
Tosefta Terumot
But orlah and diverse crops (kilayim) of the vineyard (see Orl. 3:7) are [treated] the same for Gentiles in the Land of Israel, in Syria, and outside the Land (cf. Avodah Zarah 54b:6). But Rabbi Yehudah says, the [laws of] the fourth-year vineyard do not [apply to] a Gentile in Syria. And the Sages say, they do apply (Ter. 3:9). Said Rabbi Yehudah, it so happened with S'gabion (שְׂגַבְיוֹן not שביון) the head of the synagogue of Achziv, that he had purchased from a Gentile a fourth[-year vineyard] in Syria and had paid [the Gentile] money for it. And he came and asked Rabban Gamaliel, who had been passing from place to place [about whether such a vineyard is liable]. And [Rabbi Gamaliel] said to him, "Wait until [this situation] becomes [the subject of] halachah" (i.e., Rabban Gamaliel did not know the answer). They [the Sages] said to him [Rabbi Yehudah], "This is no proof [that such a vineyard is not liable]. Not only that, but [Rabban Gamaliel later] sent him [S'gabion] in the hand of a deaf-mute messenger (alt., "a secret message," see Lieberman), [stating,] 'What you did, you did, but do not teach [others] to do so.'"
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