Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

σκατοφάγος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκατοφάγος σκατοφάγον

Structure: σκατοφαγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fagei=n

Sense

  1. eating dirt

Examples

  • ἀόνεσ φάγροι τε λάβρακέσ τε καὶ τὸ πίονεσ σκατοφάγοι σάλπαι βδελυχραί, ἁδέαι δ’ ἐν τῷ θέρει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1183)

Synonyms

  1. eating dirt

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

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