ETYMOLOGY
from Latin porcus (a pig, hog) + literarum (letters, written knowledge, literature)
EXAMPLE
“…Epics he wrote and scores of rebusses,
All as neat as old Turnebus’s;
Eggs and altars, cyclopædias,
Grammars, prayer books – oh! ’twere tedious,
Did I but tell the half, to follow me,
Not the scribbling bard of Ptolemy,
No – nor the hoary Trismegistus,
(Whose writings all, thank heaven! have miss’d us,)
E’er fill’d with lumber such a ware-room
As this great “porcus literarum!” …”
From: Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems
By Thomas Moore, 1807
“The Devil Among The Scholars”
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