Βουλιμιᾷ
is starving
Translated by Jennifer Benedict6 Jun 2002Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning he/she/it] is famished, is excessively hungry. From the adverb bou ["ox-wise"], which is indicative of intensity; as also in boupeina ["ox hunger"], [meaning] great hunger;1 and bougaïos ["big bully"]2 and bouglôssoi ["big tongues"]. Some say [it is] a type of sickness, in which those who eat a lot are not filled.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Βουλιμιᾷ· λιμώττει, πεινῇ λίαν. ἀπὸ τοῦ βου ἐπιρρήματος, ὅπερ ἐπιτάσεώς ἐστι δηλωτικόν· ὡς καὶ ἐν τῷ βούπεινα, ἡ μεγάλη πεῖνα· καὶ βουγάϊος καὶ βούγλωσσοι. τινὲς δὲ εἶδος νόσου φασὶν, ἐν ᾗ πολλὰ ἐσθίοντες οὐ πληροῦνται.
Betacode
*boulimia=|: limw/ttei, peinh=| li/an. a)po\ tou= bou e)pirrh/matos, o(/per e)pita/sew/s e)sti dhlwtiko/n: w(s kai\ e)n tw=| bou/peina, h( mega/lh pei=na: kai\ bouga/i+os kai\ bou/glwssoi. tine\s de\ ei)=dos no/sou fasi\n, e)n h(=| polla\ e)sqi/ontes ou) plhrou=ntai.
Notes (2)
- From the scholia to Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 873, where the headword appears; cf. epsilon 35.↩
See also beta 440, beta 441.- 1beta 454. ↩
- 2beta 414.
Linked from4 entries
- β414Βουγάϊοςbig-mouth, braggartThe [prefix] bou [is here] for enlargement; just as in boupeina, [meaning] great hunger, and bouglôssoi.
- β440Βουλιμιᾶνto be starvingThe [same term as] with us. But Xenophon says "to be starving" when the stomach is eating itself with hunger. "Going to the yoke beasts, if he ever saw some food he gave it to those who were starving." "And when it is…
- β441Βούλιμοςterrible hungerMasculine. [Meaning] prolonged starvation. "Many fell on the road because of terrible hunger, both their hands and feet frozen off."
- β454Βούπειναox-hunger[Meaning] great hunger.
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