Pigs
“the swine herds”
animal · 8 works · 8 mentions · 13 anchored passages
pigs · swine · pig · the pig · a young pig · boar pigs · piglets · porcelli · porci · sows
spoken of as
3 expressionsPig“proverbial”5 mentions
Laches (Greek) · Orations (Greek) · Lovers (Greek) · On the Nature of the Gods (Latin) · Stromata (Greek)
I think not.
the pig2 mentions
On the Nature of the Gods (Latin) · Stromata (Greek)
To which indeed Chrysippus says that its very soul was given for salt, lest it should rot;
The sow“pig”1 mention
Orations (Greek)
When we took the sow that had the young, the rest escaped;
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Animal whose soul, per Chrysippus, exists only to keep its flesh from rotting, fitted purely for feeding men
To which indeed Chrysippus says that its very soul was given for salt, lest it should rot;
Stromata
The pig, a forbidden animal in the Mosaic dietary law, allegorized as a figure of hypocrisy and degradation.
But another said, more authoritatively, that the first blessing is set upon those who did not follow after the wicked judgments — those that apostatized from God;
for those that have no scales, which Moses forbids to touch, feed at the bottom of the sea — "nor stood in the way of sinners" — as those who seem to fear the Lord sin like the pig;
Against Conon
Animals used in purification when the assembly convenes.
and that these men used to devour the food set out for Hecatê and to gather up on each occasion for their dinner with one another the testicles of the pigs which are offered for purification when the assembly convenes, and that they thought less of swearing and perjuring themselves than of anything else in the world.
Orations
A domesticated pig secretly fattened by the young suitor's family to serve as the sacrificial victim for the wedding.
When we took the sow that had the young, the rest escaped;
So the girl's younger brother said, But this man has long since provided a victim, and there is one within, being fattened behind the hut, a noble one.
74. These things, then, he said, your mother was laughing at, when I wondered to hear the sow grunting, and you spent the barley so. For the Euboean acorns, he said, were not enough to fatten her, who would not even eat acorns. But if you wish to see her, I will go and bring her. And they bade him. So he and the boys went off from there at a run, rejoicing.
Odyssey
The pigs of Eumaios's herds, central to his livelihood, the suitors' consumption, and the sacrifice made in Odysseus's honor.
The swineherd, who was a most equitable man, then stood up to give every one his share.
There were three hundred and sixty boar pigs, and the herdsman's four hounds, which were as fierce as wolves, slept always with them.
As for myself, I am in charge of the pigs that you see here, and I have to keep picking [ krinô] out the best I have and sending it to them.
Laches
Proverbial animal invoked to show that ordinary awareness falls short of the special knowledge Nicias identifies with courage.
I think not.
And so in fact this is not a thing which, as the proverb says, any pig would know;
Lovers
Invoked proverbially by the lover of athletics to claim that even the dullest creature would recognize moderate exercise as best.
For my part, Socrates, he said, I thought even a pig— as the saying is—would have known that moderate exercise causes them to be in good bodily condition, so why should not a fellow who is sleepless and unfed, with unchafed neck and slender, care-worn frame!
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Pigs and piglets, central to the forest economy through the rights of agistment and pannage, and protected from forester exactions.
Et si porci alicujus liberi hominis una nocte pernoctaverint in foresta nostra, non inde occasionetur ita quod aliquid de suo perdat.
Nullus forestarius vel bedellus decetero faciat scotale, vel colligat garbas, vel avenam, vel bladum aliud, vel agnos, vel porcellos, nec aliquam collectam faciant;