is not jackal, but whelp; the fierce young of an animal; not only of jackals or lions but of men, kings or gods,
. Thus Orestes speaks (Eur., Orest., 1) of σκύμνον ἀνοσίου πατρός, and the Chorus of another play talks of the reception of τὸν Ἀχίλλειον σκύμνον (Andr., 1170). And Shakespeare speaks of “the young whelp of Talbot’s raging brood.”
[9.] Pedestal,
; the stand upon which the images or emblems of the god were carried in procession. The