Swine · Atlas · Falsafa

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StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

Swine, used as an image for those who prefer baseness to clean teaching.

Swine, at any rate, take more pleasure in mud than in clean water.

and indeed it educates us beforehand toward the gaining of self-control by the use of the animals, forbidding us to partake of all that are by nature fat, like the race of swine, which happens to be very full-fleshed;

book 2 ¶

" For the swine signifies the pleasure-loving and unclean desire for foods, and the lickerish craving for venery, and a defiled wantonness, ever itching, material and lying in the mire, fattened for slaughter and destruction.

book 5 ¶

ProtrepticusLate Antiquity · Greek

Swine, used as a symbol for men who pursue base pleasures.

"For swine," it says, "delight in mire rather than in pure water," and "rave over filth," according to Democritus.

protrepticus ¶

The HistoriesClassical · Greek

Animal considered unclean by the Egyptians, restricted to swineherds' own caste, yet sacrificed to the Moon and Dionysus at the full moon.

But this is how they sacrifice swine to the Moon:

chapter 2 ¶

Swine are held by the Egyptians to be unclean beasts.

chapter 2 ¶

Nor do the Egyptians think it right to sacrifice swine to any god except the Moon and Dionysus;

chapter 2 ¶

OdysseyClassical · Greek

The herds of pigs tended by Eumaios on Telemakhos's behalf.

"Eumaios, and all of you, tomorrow I want to go away and begin begging about the town, so as to be no more trouble to you or to your men.

chapter 15 ¶

Then they loosed the hawsers, thrust the ship off from land, and made on towards the city as they had been told to do, while Telemakhos strode on as fast as he could, till he reached the homestead where his countless herds of swine were feeding, and where dwelt the excellent swineherd, who was so devoted a servant to his master.

chapter 15 ¶

Barlaam and JosaphatMedieval · Greek

Proverbial sow used as a simile for a sin-habituated soul.

and thereafter, just as a sow that wallows in mire takes pleasure in it, so too that soul, buried under evil habits, no longer takes any perception of the foul stench of its sins, but rather delights in them and is sweetened by them, clinging to wickedness as to some good;

chapter 19 ¶

De Fuga in PersecutioneLate Antiquity · Latin

The herd of pigs into which a legion of demons entered only with God's permission, per the Gospel account.

Nor did the legion of the devil have power even over the herd of swine, unless it had obtained it from God;

de fuga in persecutione ¶

Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John20th Century · English

Swine, pastured in royal woods under the pannage system and regulated by the Swanimote assemblies.

As matter of fact (whatever doctrine may be correct philologically), these assemblies were connected, not with “swains,” but with “swine.

iv forest courts ¶

For thirty days at Michaelmas, pigs were turned loose to feed on acorns and beech mast, on payment by their owners of a small fixed sum per head.

iii forest officials ¶

(5) Three times every year, meetings, known from an early date as “Swanimotes,” were held to regulate the pasturing of swine and cattle within the royal woods.

iv forest courts ¶