Λαφυγμός

edacity, gourmandising

Translated by Ioannis Doukas30 Dec 2008Vetting: high4 revisions

2 notes · 39 words
[Meaning] gluttony, and extragavance in eating; that is, [one] out of the ordinary, expensive luxury. Eating greedily. Eupolis in Flatterers [writes]: "[he/she/it] will be devoured with altogether vigorous edacity".1 Homer [writes]: "and [sc. a lion] devours all the entrails".2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Λαφυγμός· ἡ ἀδηφαγία, καὶ ἡ πρὸς τὰ ἐδέσματα πολυτέλεια· τουτέστιν ἐκδεδιῃτημένη, πολυτελὴς τρυφή. τὸ ἀπλήστως ἐσθίειν. Εὔπολις ἐν Κόλαξι· λαφύσσεται λαφυγμὸν ἀνδρεῖον πάνυ. Ὅμηρος· καὶ ἔγκατα πάντα λαφύσσει.

Betacode
*lafugmo/s: h( a)dhfagi/a, kai\ h( pro\s ta\ e)de/smata polute/leia: toute/stin e)kdedih|thme/nh, polutelh\s trufh/. to\ a)plh/stws e)sqi/ein. *eu)/polis e)n *ko/laci: lafu/ssetai lafugmo\n a)ndrei=on pa/nu. *(/omhros: kai\ e)/gkata pa/nta lafu/ssei.

Notes (2)

  1. From the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 52, where the present headword occurs in the genitive case (web address 1).
    cf. lambda 157.
  2. 1Eupolis fr. 148 Kock, now 166 K.-A. ↩
  3. 2Homer, Iliad 11.176 and 17.64 (web addresses 2 and 3). ↩

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λ154ΛαύρειονLaureion, Lauriumλ155ΛαφρίαLaphrianλ156Λαφυγμόςedacity, gourmandisingλ157Λαφύξαςhaving gulped downλ158Λάφυραbooty
Revision history4 revisions · last 30 Dec 2014
  1. updated a ref — David Whitehead
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. tweaking — David Whitehead
  4. x-ref; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
  5. Translated — Ioannis Doukas

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