• In early paintings the swine is the symbol of St. Anthony, as the cherub is of St. Matthew, the lion of St. Mark, and the eagle of St. John. There is an old tradition that St. Anthony was once a swineherd. Brand, Pop. Antiquities , I 358, says:⁠— “In the World of Wonders is the following translation of an epigram:⁠— ‘Once fed’st thou, Anthony, an heard of swine, And now an heard of monkes thou feedest still:⁠— For wit and gut, alike both charges bin: Both loven filth alike; both like to fill Their greedy paunch alike. Nor was that kind More beastly, sottish, swinish than this last. All else agrees: one fault I onely find, Thou feedest not thy monkes with oken mast.’ “The author mentions before, persons ‘who runne up and downe the country, crying, Have you anything to bestow upon my lord S. Anthonie’s swine?’ ” Mrs. Jameson, Sacred and Legendary Art , II 380, remarks:⁠— “I have read somewhere that the hog is given to St. Anthony, because he had been a swineherd, and cured the diseases of swine. This is quite a mistake. The hog was the representative of the demon of sensuality and gluttony, which Anthony is supposed to have vanquished by the exercises of piety and by divine aid.