Surely I have smoothed and quieted my soul: like a weanling on his mother's (breast), like a weanling is my soul within me.
Weanling pigs, from the fact that they are considered fit to be offered for sacrifice at that age, were formerly called sacres as Plautus calls them when he says, "What's the price of sacred pigs?
At first he expostulates, accusing the slave of the brother, who has mistaken his identity, of being crazy and offers to exorcise him by a sacrifice of weanling pigs, wherefore he asks the question quoted in the text.
I had not asked him--had never said that the poor weanling wanted milk.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weanling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: babe; baby; infant; papoose; suckling; toddler; yearling
