ᾶς (ἡ) :
      1 pâture pour les animaux, ESCHL. Pr. 583 ; SOPH. Ant. 30 ; EUR. Ph. 1603 ; AR. Eq. 417 ; ARSTT. Nic. 3, 10, 7 ;
      2 p. suite, nourriture de ceux qui se nourrissent de chair humaine, HDT. 1, 119 ; ESCHL. Ag. 1220 ; SOPH. Ant. 1017 ; EUR. Cycl. 127, etc. ;
      3 p. ext. nourriture, en mauv. part, càd. avec idée de gloutonnerie, EUR. Suppl. 865 ;
      4 nourriture, en gén. PD. fr. 94 ; SOPH. Ph. 274, etc.

Étym. βιϐρώσκω.

ἡ, food, prop. of carnivorous beasts, ποντίοις δάκεσι δὸς βοράν A. Pr. 583 (lyr.), cf. Ch. 530; θηρσὶν ἄθλιον β. E. Ph. 1603, cf. S. Ant. 30; κυνὸς β. Ar. Eq. 416; ὁ λέων… [χαίρει] ὅτι β. ἕξει Arist. EN 1118a23; of cannibal feasts, Hdt. 1.119; κρεῶν… οἰκείας βορᾶς of their own flesh served as food, of the children of Thyestes, A. Ag. 1220, cf. 1597; βορᾶς τοῦ… Οἰδίπου γόνου food torn from the body of the son of Oedipus, S. Ant. 1017, cf. 1040; βορᾷ χαίρουσιν ἀνθρωποκτόνῳ ; E. Cyc. 127; οὐ γὰρ ἐν γαστρὸς β. τὸ χρηστὸν εἶναι in gluttony, Id. Supp. 865; less freq. of simple food, Pi. Fr. 124.5, A. Pers. 490, S. Ph. 274, etc. (βορρά is prob. f.l. for φορβά in AP 3.14.) (Cf. βιβρώσκω ; g^uerə-, cf. Skt. -gara- in compds. (cf. δημοβόρος, Lat. carni-vorus) ΄devouring΄, giráti ΄swallow΄, Lat. vorare, Lith. gérti ΄drink΄, etc.)

ἡ, Fraß, Speise, Pind. frg. 94 ; Aesch. Prom. 583 ; Ar. Eq. 514 ; Her. 1.119 u. Folgde.

eatage, meat , properly of carnivorous beasts, [variant datesTragica Adespota; of cannibal-like feast, (Herdotus Historicus) (ML)