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παμφάγος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: παμφάγος παμφάγον

Structure: παμφαγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. all-devouring, voracious

Examples

  • τῶν τε γὰρ θηρίων τὰ μὲν ἀγελαῖα τὰ δὲ σποραδικά ἐστιν, ὁποτέρωσ συμφέρει πρὸσ τὴν τροφὴν αὐτοῖσ διὰ τὸ τὰ μὲν ζῳοφάγα τὰ δὲ καρποφάγα τὰ δὲ παμφάγα αὐτῶν εἶναι, ὥστε πρὸσ τὰσ ῥᾳστώνασ καὶ τὴν αἱρ́εσιν τὴν τούτων ἡ φύσισ τοὺσ βίουσ αὐτῶν διώρισεν, ἐπεὶ δ’ οὐ ταὐτὸ ἑκάστῳ ἡδὺ κατὰ φύσιν ἀλλὰ ἕτερα ἑτέροισ, καὶ αὐτῶν τῶν ζῳοφάγων καὶ τῶν καρποφάγων οἱ βίοι πρὸσ ἄλληλα διεστᾶσιν· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 1 91:2)
  • "κατηγορεῖ δ’ αὐτῶν καὶ ἡ βραχύτησ τοῦ βίου τὸ ἐπίκηρον καὶ νοσῶδεσ οὐδὲν γὰρ ὡσ εἰπεῖν πολυχρόνιόν ἐστι, πλὴν εἰ φαίη τισ κόρακα καὶ κορώνην, ἃ δὴ παμφάγα τ’ ὄντα καὶ πάσησ ἁπτόμενα τροφῆσ ὁρῶμεν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 4, 12:14)

Synonyms

  1. all-devouring

Related

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

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