If there was anywhere an oven, there
The well-fed sucking-pig did crackle, roasting.
But Æschines uses the form δελφάκιον for δέλφαξ in his Alcibiades, saying, "Just as the women at the cookshops breed sucking-pigs (δελφάκια)." And Antiphanes, in his Physiognomist, says—
Those women take the sucking-pigs (δελφάκια),
And fatten them by force;
And in his Persuasive Man he says—
To be fed up instead of pigs (δελφακίων).
Plato, however, has used the word δέλφαξ in the masculine gender in his Poet, where he says—
Leanest of pigs (δέλφακα ῥαιότατον).
And Sophocles, in his play called Insolence, says—