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Headword:
Delphakas
Adler number: delta,204
Translated headword: piglets
Vetting Status: high
Translation: ['Piglets'] and 'suckling-pig': [meaning] big porkers, though some [sc. say] the small ones also.
Homer [writes]: "eat now, o stranger, the pork that is available to slaves; the very fattened hogs that the suitors eat."[1]
They smash the head of a male piglet with a rock when they pray.[2]
"Well, it's young, but it will grow up to pighood big and with a decent bit of tail."[2]
Delphakas kai Delphakion: tous megalous choirous, hoi de kai tous mikrous. Homêros: esthie nun, ô xeine, ta te dmôessi paresti choirei': atar sialous ge suas mnêstêres edousi. delphakos arrenos lithôi tên kephalên paiontes arôntai. nea gar estin, alla delphakoumenê hêxei megalên te kai pacheian kerkon.
Notes:
The twin headwords are feminine accusative plural and neuter nominative/accusative singular; the latter intrudes here on what is otherwise material drawn from the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
739.
See also
delta 205.
[1]
Homer,
Odyssey 14.80-1 (web address 1 below).
[2] Quotation unidentifiable.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 785-7 (web address 2), where the piglet is used as a metaphor for the female genitalia. See J. Henderson,
The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 132 #113, 146 #184.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; food; gender and sexuality; imagery; religion; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 29 July 2002@11:25:48.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified translation; added note and keyword; cosmetics) on 9 September 2002@05:20:03.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 28 November 2005@10:26:45.
David Whitehead (internal rearrangement; augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 18 June 2012@07:12:12.
David Whitehead on 9 October 2015@07:38:53.
Catharine Roth (tweaked links) on 15 July 2016@19:06:40.
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