swineherd

[ swahyn-hurd ]

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noun

swineherd

/ ˈswaɪnˌhɜːd /

before 1100; Middle English; late Old English swȳnhyrde. See swine, herd ²

Presently he came to a second forest, and there he met another swineherd driving pigs.

The statement may be dismissed as a fable, but it is more than probable that the assertion that he was a swineherd is correct.

Is it by short clothes of yellow serge, and swineherd horns, that an infant of genius is educated?

She appeared to Ulysses in the steading of Eumœus, the swineherd, as a “woman tall and fair, and skilful in splendid handiwork.”

The boy was afterwards sold to Laertes, the father of Ulysses, in whose service he put on immortality as the swineherd Eumæus.

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