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Headword: Ἀδηφαγία
Adler number: alpha,469
Translated headword: greed
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Insatiability.
Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] adephagos ["greedy"], [meaning someone] incessantly eating, omnivorous, gourmandizing.
"Greedy triremes"[1] would be a name for ones on full pay and costing a lot, as a metaphor from fully-grown racehorses. Alcaeus in the [play] Comitragedy calls tippling lamps "greedy".[2]
Greek Original:
Ἀδηφαγία: ἡ ἀπληστία. καὶ Ἀδηφάγος, ἀθρόως ἐσθίων, πολυφάγος, γαστρίμαργος. Ἀδηφάγοι τριήρεις λέγοιντ' ἂν αἱ ἐντελόμισθοι καὶ πολλὰ ἀναλίσκουσαι, ἐκ μεταφορᾶς τῶν τελείων καὶ ἀγωνιστῶν ἵππων. Ἀλκαῖος δὲ ἐν τῇ Κωμῳδοτραγῳδίᾳ τοὺς πότας λύχνους ἀδηφάγους εἶπεν.
Notes:
[1] This paragraph abridges Harpokration s.v. ἀδηφάγους τριήρεῖς (a phrase in Lysias: fr. 103 Sauppe, now 121a Carey).
[2] Alcaeus fr.21 Kassel-Austin.
Reference:
D.Whitehead, "Observations on ἀδηφαγία ", Rheinisches Museum fur Philologie 145 (2002) 175-186
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 3 October 2000@06:47:28.
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