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ἐμφαγεῖν

Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐμφαγεῖν

Structure:

Etym.: inf. of aor2 e)ne/fagon, no pres. e)nesqi/w being in use

Sense

to eat hastily
to eat in or upon

Conjugation

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

θέρουσ δὲ ἀγαθὸν καὶ ὄρθρου ὀλίγον δοῦναι ἐμφαγεῖν, ὡσ μὴ ἀποκναίεσθαι ὑπὸ μήκουσ· (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 13 2:1)
καὶ γὰρ αὖ καὶ τούτουσ ἔφασκεν ὀλιγοχρονίου τε καὶ βραχείασ ἡδονῆσ ἔρωτι πολλὰσ πραγματείασ ὑπομένειν ἀπέφαινε γοῦν τεσσάρων δακτύλων αὐτοῖσ ἕνεκα πάντα πονεῖσθαι τὸν πόνον, ἐφ’ ὅσουσ ὁ μήκιστοσ ἀνθρώπου λαιμὸσ ἐστιν οὔτε γὰρ πρὶν ἐμφαγεῖν, ἀπολαύειν τι τῶν ἐωνημένων, οὔτε βρωθέντων ἡδίω γενέσθαι τὴν ἀπὸ τῶν πολυτελεστέρων πλησμονήν λοιπὸν οὖν εἶναι τὴν ἐν τῇ παρόδῳ γιγνομένην ἡδονὴν τοσούτων ὠνεῖσθαι χρημάτων. (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 33:2)
ὁ χρυσὸσ δὲ κοῖλοσ ἡμῖν ἐμφαγεῖν, τὰ δὲ ἐκπώματα οὐ κοῦφα ὡσ τὰ Ἐχεκράτουσ, ἀλλὰ διτάλαντον ἕκαστον τὴν ὁλκήν. (Lucian, 36:1)
εἰ δέ τι ἐν Ἰνδοῖσ ἢ Ὑπερβορέοισ θέαμα παράδοξον ἢ κτῆμα τίμιον ἢ ὅσα ἐμφαγεῖν ἢ πιεῖν ἡδέα, οὐ μεταστειλάμενοσ, ἀλλ̓ αὐτὸσ ἐπιπετόμενοσ ἀπέλαυον ἁπάντων ἐσ κόρον· (Lucian, 74:4)
τοῦτο δὲ τὸ ὄνομα μνήμησ εὑρίσκω τετυχηκὸσ παρὰ μὲν Εὐβούλῳ ἐν Πορνοβοσκῷ οὕτωσ οὐκ ἂν δυναίμην ἐμφαγεῖν ἄρτον τινά· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 136)

Synonyms

to eat hastily
- σπουδή (in haste, hastily)
- βιβρώσκω (I eat, eat up)
- τρώγω (I eat)
- παίω (to eat)
- γεύω ( I eat)
- ἐπεσθίω (to eat up)
- διαβιβρώσκω (to eat up)
- βρωτήρ (eating)
- βουφάγος (ox-eating)
to eat in or upon
- παίω (to eat)
- γεύω ( I eat)
- ἐπεσθίω (to eat up)
- διαβιβρώσκω (to eat up)
- βρωτήρ (eating)
- βουφάγος (ox-eating)
- τρώγω (I eat)
- βιβρώσκω (I eat, eat up)
- ἔπειμι (to be upon)
- ἐπιβαίνω (to go upon)
- ἀνά (up, upon)
- ἀνά (on, upon, upon)
- ὁμόκαπος (eating together)
- ὁμόσιτος (eating together)
- ἐξεσθίω (to eat away, eat up)

Similar forms

ἐμφαγεῖν (11)
ἐμφαγεῖν· (1)

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

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ἐμφαγεῖν

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to eat hastily

to eat in or upon

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ἐμφαγεῖν

Sense

Conjugation

Examples

Synonyms

to eat hastily

to eat in or upon

Similar forms

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