A.“φαγεῖ” Anon. in EN448.16; φαγέοις in edd. of Ps.-Phoc.157 is v. dub.), used as aor. 2 of ἐσθίω; later 1pl. “ἐφάγαμεν” LXX 2 Ki. 19.42 cod.B, 3pl. ἐφάγοσαν ib.Ge.18.8: later fut. is φάγομαι, ib.Si.36.23, Ev.Luc.14.15; 2sg. “φάγεσαι” LXX Ru.2.14, Ev.Luc.17.8; “φάγῃ” LXX Ge.3.14; also φαγοῦμαι ib. 2(v.l.); fut. φαγήσω is v. dub. in Lib.Or. 53.29:—eat, devour, both of men and beasts, freq. in Hom.; “ἀζηχὲς φαγέμεν καὶ πιέμεν” Od.18.3, cf. 15.378, Pl.Lg.831e; reversely, “πιόντα ἢ φαγόντα” Id.Prt.314a, cf. Phd.81b, E.Cyc.336 (dub. l.): mostly c. acc., Il.21.127, 24.411, etc.: c. gen., eat of a thing, Od.9.102, 15.373; “ὄρνιθος ὄρνις πῶς ἂν ἁγνεύοι φαγών;” A.Supp.226; “ἀπό τινος” LXX Ge.2.16.
II. eat up, devour, squander, Od.2.76, 4.33. (Cf. παματοφαγέω and Skt. bhájati 'apportion, (Med.) enjoy'.)
