XXXVII. What by a Hog
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XXXVII. What by a Hog

XXXVII. WHAT BY A HOG. 1

When they would symbolise a filthy man, they depict a HOG; from such being the nature of the hog.


Footnotes

  1. 110:1

    XXXVII. There is an example of a hog in a judgment scene in the tombs of the kings, where, according to Champollion, it denotes the metampsychosis of a glutton condemned by Osiris into a hog: Bonomi. See Pl. 3.

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