[B-Greek] Off-topic: source for Imperial quote

Brent Hudson brent at riveroflifembchurch.com
Fri Jun 11 15:38:51 EDT 2004


And here is the text itself:

http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/L/Roman/Texts/Macrobi
us/Saturnalia/2*.html

(all on one line in your browser)

Brent Hudson
Moncton, NB


 

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> Google produced this:
> 
> 
> Macrobius, Saturnalia 2.4.11
> 
> Brent Hudson
> Moncton, NB
> 
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> Kenneth Litwak
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> > Subject: [B-Greek] Off-topic: source for Imperial quote
> > 
> >    I've been told that Caesar (don't know which one, but I would 
> > suppose Augustus) said that it was safer to be Herod's pig than his 
> > son, which is meant to be a pun. Can someone please tell me 
> the source 
> > of this alleged statement?  Thanks.
> > 
> > Ken Litwak
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