Identifier: historyherodotus02hero (find matches)
Title: The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Herodotus Rawlinson, George, 1812-1902 Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke, Sir, 1810-1895 Wilkinson, John Gardner, Sir, 1797-1875
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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),and Pliny, mention this custom oftreading in the grain with pigs inEgypt; but no instance occurs of itin the tombs, though goats are some-times so represented in the paintings.It is indeed more probable that pigswere turned in upon the land to eat upthe weeds and roots; and a painting atThebes, where pigs are introduced withwater-plants, seems to point to thisfact ; their habits were ill-suited tobenefit the farmer after the seed hadVOL. II. been sown ; and to muzzle each pig,when goats or other animals abounded,Λvould have been lost labour. In thedistrict of Gower, in South Wales, cornis trodden in by sheep to this day. —(G. W.) ^ The paintings show that oxen werecommonly used to tread out the gi-ainfrom the ear at harvest-time, and occa-sionally, though rarely, asses were soemployed ; but pigs not being suffi-ciently heavy for the purpose, are notlikely to have been substituted for oxen.This process was performed, as it is stillC 18 TREADING IN THE GRAIN Book II. ^^W^> i^5^^
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in Italy, Spain, and other countries, bydriving; the oxen (horses or mules) overthe corn strewed upon the ground, orupon a paved area near the field; andthe Jews, Λvho also adopted it, wereforbidden to muzzle the ox, when tread- ing out the com (Deut. xxv. 4). Inlater times the Jews appear also to haveused threshing instruments, and theword dus, treading, in the sentence Oman was threshing wheat (1 Chron.xxi. 20, 23), may merely have been re- Chap. 15. WITH PIGS. 19 15. Κ then we choose to adopt the views of the lonians*concerning Egypt, we must come to the conclusion that the

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