Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

βούβρωστις

Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βούβρωστις

Etym.: bibrw/skw

Sense

  1. eating enormously, grinding poverty or misery

Examples

  • ᾧ δέ κε τῶν λυγρῶν δώῃ, λωβητὸν ἔθηκε καὶ ἑ κακὴ βούβρωστισ ἐπὶ χθόνα δῖαν ἐλαύνει, φοιτᾷ δ’ οὔτε θεοῖσι τετιμένοσ οὔτε βροτοῖσιν. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 7 4:1)
  • ἐδόκει δ’ ἡ βούβρωστισ ἕτερον εἶναι· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 6, 4:2)
  • ᾧ δέ κε τῶν λυγρῶν δώῃ, λωβητὸν ἔθηκε, καί ἑ κακὴ βούβρωστισ ἐπὶ χθόνα δῖαν ἐλαύνει, φοιτᾷ δ’ οὔτε θεοῖσι τετιμένοσ οὔτε βροτοῖσιν. (Homer, Iliad, Book 24 50:15)
  • ᾧ δ’ ἂν μή, ἀλλ’ ἄκρατα τὰ ἕτερα,τὸν δὲ κακὴ βούβρωστισ ἐπὶ χθόνα δῖαν ἐλαύνει· (Plato, Republic, book 2 392:2)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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