Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Pork! Pork!

Sylvester, in his translation of Du Bartas, gives this instead of caw, caw, as the cry of the raven.

Pork.
Sir Thomas Browne says that the Jews abstain from pork not from fear of leprosy, as Tacitus alleges, but because the swine is an emblem of impurity. (Vulgar Errors.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Pork
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