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1  He went moodily home, and found the suitors flaying goats and singeing pigs in the outer court.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK II
2  When he had given his message he left the house with its outbuildings and went back to his pigs again.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XVI
3  As he spoke he bound his girdle round him and went to the styes where the young sucking pigs were penned.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV
4  Thus equipped he went to his rest where the pigs were camping under an overhanging rock that gave them shelter from the North wind.
The Odyssey By Homer
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5  There were three hundred and sixty boar pigs, and the herdsman's four hounds, which were as fierce as wolves, slept always with them.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV
6  As for me I live out of the way here with the pigs, and never go to the town unless when Penelope sends for me on the arrival of some news about Ulysses.
The Odyssey By Homer
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7  Meanwhile Ulysses and the swineherd had lit a fire in the hut and were were getting breakfast ready at daybreak, for they had sent the men out with the pigs.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XVI
8  Thus then were they shut up squealing, and Circe threw them some acorns and beech masts such as pigs eat, but Eurylochus hurried back to tell me about the sad fate of our comrades.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK X
9  But the swineherd did not like sleeping away from his pigs, so he got ready to go outside, and Ulysses was glad to see that he looked after his property during his master's absence.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV
10  The fat pigs have to go to the suitors, who eat them up without shame or scruple; but the blessed gods love not such shameful doings, and respect those who do what is lawful and right.
The Odyssey By Homer
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11  Thus did they converse, and presently the swineherds came up with the pigs, which were then shut up for the night in their styes, and a tremendous squealing they made as they were being driven into them.
The Odyssey By Homer
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12  There are twelve herds of cattle upon the main land, and as many flocks of sheep, there are also twelve droves of pigs, while his own men and hired strangers feed him twelve widely spreading herds of goats.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV
13  Three of his men were out herding the pigs in one place or another, and he had sent the fourth to town with a boar that he had been forced to send the suitors that they might sacrifice it and have their fill of meat.
The Odyssey By Homer
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14  They left their sports as he told them, and when they were within the house, they laid their cloaks on the benches and seats inside, and then sacrificed some sheep, goats, pigs, and a heifer, all of them fat and well grown.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XVII
15  There were fifty pigs wallowing in each stye, all of them breeding sows; but the boars slept outside and were much fewer in number, for the suitors kept on eating them, and the swineherd had to send them the best he had continually.
The Odyssey By Homer
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16  He asked me to his house, feasted me, and then butchered me most miserably as though I were a fat beast in a slaughter house, while all around me my comrades were slain like sheep or pigs for the wedding breakfast, or picnic, or gorgeous banquet of some great nobleman.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
17  When she had got them into her house, she set them upon benches and seats and mixed them a mess with cheese, honey, meal, and Pramnian wine, but she drugged it with wicked poisons to make them forget their homes, and when they had drunk she turned them into pigs by a stroke of her wand, and shut them up in her pig-styes.
The Odyssey By Homer
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