Swine
animal · 9 works · 12 mentions · 17 anchored passages
swine · pigs · the swine · hogs · hys · pig · swine's flesh · swinish men · the herd of swine · the sow
in the texts
Stromata
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;
" 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.
De Agri Cultura
Pigs kept on the farm, tended by a swineherd and housed in pigsties.
An overseer, an overseer's wife, five labourers, three ox-drivers, one ass-driver, one swineherd, one shepherd:
An overseer, an overseer's wife, ten labourers, one ox-driver, one ass-driver, one willow-worker, one swineherd:
If you let out the building of a new farmhouse from the ground up, the contractor should do the following.
Protrepticus
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.
The Histories
Animal considered unclean by the Egyptians, restricted to swineherds' own caste, yet sacrificed to the Moon and Dionysus at the full moon.
Nor do the Egyptians think it right to sacrifice swine to any god except the Moon and Dionysus;
To Dionysus, on the evening of his festival, everyone offers a piglet which he kills before his door and then gives to the swineherd who has sold it, for him to take away.
But this is how they sacrifice swine to the Moon:
Odyssey
The herds of pigs tended by Eumaios on Telemakhos's behalf.
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.
"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.
De fortuna
Cited as the fattest of creatures, valued as nourishment and cheer for man.
Fish is the sweetest thing, and swine the fattest;
Titus Flamininus
Animal invoked in Titus's anecdote to mock the inflated variety of names for Antiochus's otherwise uniform troops.
And once more, when an embassy from Antiochus was recounting to the Achaeans the vast multitude of the king’s forces and enumerating them all by their various appellations, Titus said that once, when he was dining with a friend, he criticised the multitude of meats that were served, wondering where he had obtained so varied a supply;
And so in your case, said he, men of Achaia, do not be astonished when you hear of the Spear-bearers and Lance-bearers and Foot-companions in the army of Antiochus;
De Fuga in Persecutione
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;
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Swine, pastured in royal woods under the pannage system and regulated by the Swanimote assemblies.
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.
(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.
As matter of fact (whatever doctrine may be correct philologically), these assemblies were connected, not with “swains,” but with “swine.