Re: [tied] Re: Troj ( it was ancient sources)

P&G wrote:

>>> mother ("mater") sow, with piglets
>> It does? Enlighten me. "Sus" and "porca" are all I can find for a
>> sow, with or without pigs
>
> It does not occur in Classical literature, but is given by a
> scholiast on Vergil, Aeneid 8:83ff, where Aeneas finds such a sow
> with piglets and slaughters the lot of them. The point of the image
> is that he kills troia / Troia, signifying that at last he has turned
> his back on Troy, and is ready to move forward to the foundation of
> Rome
>
> Peter

Interesting. Should one understand that is the explanation of a
scholiast on Vergil or that the "mater" meant indeed sow?

I tried to find it in Book 8 but I have had no look. In the whole Aeneid
the word "porc-" appears only one time and indeed in the Book 8:

"Romulidis Tatioque seni Curibusque severis.
Post idem inter se posito certamine reges
armati Iovis ante aram paterasque tenentes
stabant et caesa iungebant foedera porca. "

Could you please give the whoe sentence where is to find the word
"mater" with the sense of "sow" ?
Thank you.