16
He wanted to fill his belly with the pods that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.
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Verse 16. Husks. This expresses the extreme misery of his condition. There is no need of seeking any other mystery in this word. Horace, by a kind of hyperbole, (B. ii, Ep. 1.) represents the miser as living upon husks to be able to save more.
Vivit siliquis et pane secundo.
—And no man gave unto him; that is gave him bread, mentioned before; for as for the husks, he could take what he pleased. Witham.
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