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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 4576692, member: 51347&quot;]<b>Aeneas killed the Sow and all 30 piglets.&nbsp; Yummy supper THAT nite!</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Here is a quote from Cliff&#039;s Notes on Virgil&#039;s Aenead:</b></p><p><br /></p><p>So in the detail you cut out... is that the sacrificial pyre, ready to be lit?&nbsp; Or is that a bad representation of the 30 piglets? Or both.&nbsp; The pig does look like she has heavy teats of a sow with recent piglets.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;One night while Aeneas is sleeping, the god of the Tiber River appears in a dream and tells the Trojan prince that he will find on the shore a white sow and her litter, which symbolically represent Alba Longa, to be founded by Ascanius after thirty years have passed — the number of sucklings in the litter. This discovery is the sign Helenus foretold to Aeneas: It is absolute proof that the Trojans have come to the right place at last. The river god also advises Aeneas to sail upstream to the city of Pallanteum and seek the aid of its king, Evander.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>Waking, Aeneas prays to the river god and then finds the sow and her litter, <span style="color: #b30000">all of which he sacrifices to Juno.</span></i></b> He then sails up the Tiber with two of his oared ships and their crews.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/a/aeneid/summary-and-analysis/book-viii" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/a/aeneid/summary-and-analysis/book-viii" rel="nofollow">https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/a/aeneid/summary-and-analysis/book-viii</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Normal Sow&#039;s litter approx 8-15 piglets.&nbsp; So, 30 is a real story...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1133109[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1133110[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1133111[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1133113[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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