A.savageness, wildness, of animals, opp. ἡμερότης, X.Mem.2.2.7, cf. Isoc.12.163, Arist.HA588a21; ofplants, Thphr.HP 3.2.4; of untilled ground, “ἀ. γῆς” Gp.7.1.4; of diet, Hp.VM7 (as v.l. for θηριότητα), Aër.23.
II. of men, in moral sense, fierceness, cruelty, Pl.Smp.197d, al., D.26.26 (pl.).