And then they ask where all sorts of syphilis come from.
Syphilis got its name from the shepherd Syphilus (from Ancient Greek: σῦς — pig and Ancient Greek: φίλος — friend) in Girolamo Fracastoro's poem "Syphilis sive de morbo Gallico" (Syphilis or the French Disease) of 1530. The shepherd Syphilus was punished by the gods for "friendship with a pig."
