κεράτιον, Luke xv, 16; the husks of leguminous plants, so named from their resemblance to κέρας, _a horn_; but Bochart thinks that the κερατία were the _ceretonia_, the husks or fruit of the carob tree, a tree very common in the Levant. We learn from Columella, that these pods afforded food for swine; and they are mentioned as what the prodigal desired to eat, when reduced to extreme hunger.