Χαλαζᾷ
is hailing
Translated by Roger Travis22 Jun 1999Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
i.e. is loose. "If he is hailing in the arse".1 But this is a disease of animals, which escapes notice while they are living, but becomes apparent when they are dead and cut up. The "hailstone"2 is mixed up and grown into their flesh. Butchers usually open the mouths of pigs with a peg after slaughter to determine whether they have hailstones.3 Hailstone is entirely a disease of pigs.