Complex sentence: First there is a starving Megarian who trades his famished daughters, disguised as pigs, for garlic and salt (products in which Megara once abounded) and then an informer or sycophant tries to confiscate the pigs as enemy contraband before he is driven off by Dikaiopolis.
Split into simpler sentences: First there is a starving Megarian who trades his famished daughters, disguised as pigs, for garlic and salt (products in which Megara once abounded). An informer or sycophant tries to confiscate the pigs as enemy contraband but he is driven off by Dikaiopolis.