Macrobius, Ambrosius°
MACROBIUS, AMBROSIUS°
MACROBIUS, AMBROSIUS ° (c. 400), Roman grammarian. He credits *Augustus with a grim pun reflecting Jewish abstinence from swine flesh. On hearing that *Herod had ordered his own son to be killed, Augustus remarked: "I would rather be Herod's pig [Gr. hus] than his son [Gr. huios]" (Saturnalia 2:4, 11).
[Jacob Petroff]
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