Χοιροκομεῖον
pig-pen
Translated by David Whitehead1 Apr 2008Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning a] woven receptacle, in which they used to tether and rear the young pigs. Or the peg, on which they used to shackle the pigs and rear them. Aristophanes [writes]: "these envoys from Sparta are coming, trailing beards as if they had a pig-pen round their thighs." Since they were arriving with their cloaks swollen up.