[Footnote 134:  Cf.  Polybius, XII, 4:  ’For in Italy the swineherds manage the feeding of their pigs in the same way.  They do not follow close behind the beasts, as in Greece, but keep some distance in front of them, sounding their horn every now and then:  and the animals follow behind and run together at the sound.  Indeed, the complete familiarity which the animals show with the particular horn to which they belong seems at first astonishing and almost incredible.  For, owing to the populousness and wealth of the country, the droves of swine in Italy are exceedingly large, especially along the sea coast of the Tuscans and Gauls:  for one sow will bring up a thousand pigs, or some times even more.  They, therefore, drive them out from their night styes to feed according to their litters and ages.  When if several droves are taken to the same place they cannot preserve these distinctions of litters:  but they, of course, get mixed up with each other both as they are being driven out and as they feed, and as they are being brought home.  Accordingly, the device of the horn blowing has been invented to separate them when they have got mixed up together, without labour or trouble.  For as they feed one swineherd goes in one direction sounding his horn, and another in another and thus the animals sort themselves of their own accord and follow their own horn with such eagerness that it is impossible by any means to stop or hinder them.  But in Greece when the swine get mixed up in the oak forests in their search for the mast, the swineherd who has most assistants and the best help at his disposal, when collecting his own animals drives off his neighbours’ also.  Some times, too, a thief lies in wait and drives them off without the swineherd knowing how he has lost them, because the beasts straggle a long way from their drivers in their eagerness to find acorns, when they are just beginning to fall.’

Bishop Latimer in one of his sermons quotes the phrase used in his youth, at the time of the discovery of America, in calling hogs:  ’Come to thy minglemangle, come pur, come pur.’  It would be impossible to transcribe the traditional call used in Virginia.  One some times thinks that it was the original of the celebrated ‘rebel yell’ of General Lee’s army.]

[Footnote 135:  The use of the Greek salutation was esteemed by the more austere Romans of the age of Scipio an evidence of preciosity, to be laughed at:  and so Lucienus’ jesting apology for the use of it here doubtless was in reference to Lucilius’ epigram which Cicero has preserved, de Finibus, I, 3.

       “Graece ergo praetor Athenis
  Id quod maluisti te, quum ad me accedi, saluto
  [Greek:  Chaire] inquam, Tite:  lictores turma omni cohorsque
  [Greek:  Chaire] Tite!  Hinc hostis mi Albucius, hinc inimicus.”

It was the word which the Romans taught their parrots.  Cf.  Persius, Prolog. 8.]