Δελφάκιον
suckling-pig
Translated by Ross Scaife ✝4 Dec 2001Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] a piglet.1
Aristophanes [writes]: "ah, wretched me, I have become a suckling-pig."2 He said this because he had been scorched about the anus. Meaning singed.3 For after the suckling-pigs had been sacrificed they singe them, in order to make them smooth.4
Aristophanes [writes]: "ah, wretched me, I have become a suckling-pig."2 He said this because he had been scorched about the anus. Meaning singed.3 For after the suckling-pigs had been sacrificed they singe them, in order to make them smooth.4