It is better to be King Herod’s pig than son.
-Emperor Augustus commenting on the Herod the Great’s habit of killing competition even in his own family, and only a pig is safe in that region (Macrobius, Saturnalia, 2:4:11)
All nations surround me; three times Gog and Magog are destined to come up to Jerusalem
-Midrash Tehillim 118.12