And in his Deserters he says—
SUCKLINGS.
Are you not going to kill a sucking-pig?
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—