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χοῖρος , ὁ （ἡ Hippon.40, S.Fr.230, Ar.Ach.764):—
A.young pig, porker (younger than δέλφαξ, Ar.Byz. ap. Ath 9.375. Cratin.3a), Od. 14.73, Alc.Supp.24.2, Hdt.2.48, A.Fr.309, Ar.Ach.781, etc.; offered as one of the smaller sacrifices, Pl.R.378a, X.An.7.8.5, D.54.39, Henioch.2.
b. generally, = ὗς, σῦς, swine, “ἤδη δέλφακες, χοῖροι δὲ τοῖσιν ἄλλοις” Cratin. l.c., cf. Mnesim.4.47 (anap.), Plu.Cic.7, Ev.Matt. 8.30.
2. pudenda muliebria, freq. in Com. poets, who are always punning on the word and its compds., Ar.Ach.773 sq., etc.; said to be a Corinthian usage, Suid.
II. a fish of the Nile, Str.17.2.4, Ath.7.312a, Gp.20.7.1, 13 tit. (Perh. for ĝhoryo- 'grey', cf. Norse griss 'sucking-pig', OHG grīs 'grey', or cf. Alb. de[rmacr ] 'pig'.)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Demosthenes, Against Conon, 39
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.48
    • Homer, Odyssey, 14.73
    • New Testament, Matthew, 8.30
    • Plato, Republic, 378a
    • Strabo, Geography, 17.2.4
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 7.8.5
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 230
    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 764
    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 773
    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 781
    • Plutarch, Cicero, 7
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