Augustus’ sarcasm

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Octavian Augustus

When Octavian Augustus heard that among the young children that Herod the Great had ordered to murder in Syria was Herod’s son, he said (having in mind Jewish custom of abstaining from pork)

– It is better to be Herod’s pig, than his son .

Author: Marek Mikołajczyk
Footnotes
  1. Macrobius, Saturnalia, II, IV:11
Sources
  • Jerzy Łanowski, Antologia Anegdoty Antycznej
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