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prime hogs in the simile for Circe’s transformed men

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prime hogs in the simile for Circe’s transformed men
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The transformed men emerge from Circe’s pigstyes like prime hogs.

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“like so many prime hogs”

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“My men came out like so many prime hogs”

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Book 10 · Passage 32

‘When I had said this she went straight through the court with her wand in her hand and opened the pigstye doors. My men came out like so many prime hogs and stood looking at her, but she went about among them and anointed each with a second drug, whereon the bristles that the bad drug had given them fell off, and they became men again, younger than they were before, and much taller and better looking. They knew me at once, seized me each of them by the hand, and wept for joy till the whole house was filled with the sound of their halloa-ballooing, and Circe herself was so sorry for them that she came up to me and said, ‘Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, go back at once to the sea where you have left your ship, and first draw it on to the land. Then, hide all your ship’s gear and property in some cave, and come back here with your men.’