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And Alcæus, in his Palæstra, says—

For here he is himself, and if I grunt One atom more than any sucking-pig

And Herodotus, in his first book, says that in Babylon there is a golden altar, on which it is not lawful to sacrifice anything but sucking-pigs. Antiphanes says in his Philetærus—

There's here a pretty little cromaciscus Not yet wean'd, you see.

And Heniochus, in his Polyeuctus, says—

The ox was brazen, long since past all boiling, But he perhaps had taken a sucking-pig, And slaughter'd that.

And Anacreon says—

Like a young sucking kid, which when it leaves Its mother in the wood, trembles with fear.

And Crates, in his Neighbours, says—

For now we constantly have feasts of lovers, As long as we have store of lambs and pigs Not taken from their dams.

And Simonides represents Danae as speaking thus over Perseus—

O my dear child, what mis'ry tears my soul! But you lie sleeping, You slumber with your unwean'd heart.

And in another place he says of Archemorus—

Alas the wreath! They wept the unwean'd child, Breathing out his sweet soul in bitter pangs.

And Clearchus, in his Lives, says that Phalaris the tyrant had arrived at such a pitch of cruelty, that he used to feast on sucking children. And there is a verb [Greek: thêsthai], which means to suck milk, (Homer says—

Hector is mortal, and has suck'd the breast;)

because the mother's breast is put into the mouth of the infant. And that is the derivation of the word [Greek: titthos], breast, from [Greek: tithêmi], to place, because the breasts are thus placed in the children's mouths.

After she'd lull'd to sleep the new-born kids, As yet unweaned from their mother's breast.

55. And when some antelopes were brought round, Palmedes of Elea, the collector of words, said—It is not bad meat that of the antelopes ([Greek: dorkônes]). And Myrtilus said to him—The word is only [Greek: dorkades], not [Greek: dorkônes]. Xenophon,