swineherd

• “Then she called the swineherd to her apartment and said: "Bring the beggar hither.”

  Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece

• “Telemachus was the first to notice him, and calling the swineherd, who was sitting near, he gave him a loaf of bread and a good handful of meat, and bade him carry it to the beggar.”

  Stories from the Odyssey

• “And Telemachus called the swineherd to him, and took a whole loaf out of the fair basket, and of flesh so much as his hands could hold in their grasp, saying: 39”

  Book XVII

• “` ` Let Gurth do thine office, Oswald, '' said Wamba with his usual effrontery; ` ` the swineherd will be a fit usher to the Jew. '”

  Ivanhoe

• “The scene shifts (l. 301) to the hut of the swineherd, which is the present destination of Telemachus.”

  Homer's Odyssey A Commentary

• “And Telemachus called the swineherd to him, and took a whole loaf out of the fair basket, and of flesh so much as his hands could hold in their grasp, saying:”

  The Odyssey

• “Let Gurth do thine office, Oswald," said Wamba with his usual effrontery; "the swineherd will be a fit usher to the Jew.”

  Ivanhoe. A Romance

• “He goes off to a distant country and wastes his resources on riotous living and eventually has to work as a "swineherd" (clearly a low point as swine are unclean in Judaism.)”

  Joan E. Dowlin: Allen Iverson: The Prodigal Son Returns to Philadelphia

• ““Let Gurth do thine office, Oswald,” said Wamba with his usual effrontery; “the swineherd will be a fit usher to the”

  Ivanhoe

• “He called the swineherd to him, and said: "Eumaios, I am going back to the town to see my mother.”

  Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece

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