PIG in Classic Quotes

1  Go to the house, and kill the best pig that you can find for dinner.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXIV

2  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

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  On this he began chopping firewood, while the others brought in a fine fat five year old boar pig, and set it at the altar.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV

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
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV

7  But Eumaeus called to his men and said, "Bring in the best pig you have, that I may sacrifice him for this stranger, and we will take toll of him ourselves."

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV

8  Then he clubbed the pig with a billet of oak which he had kept back when he was chopping the firewood, and stunned it, while the others slaughtered and singed it.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV

9  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

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
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV

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
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV

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
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV

14  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
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV

15  Eumaeus did not forget the gods, for he was a man of good principles, so the first thing he did was to cut bristles from the pig's face and throw them into the fire, praying to all the gods as he did so that Ulysses might return home again.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV

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
ContextHighlight   In BOOK X