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ĕdax , ācis, adj. 1. edo; cf. Sanscr. adakas,
I.voracious, gluttonous.
I. Prop., Plaut. Pers. 3, 3, 16; Ter. Eun. prol. 38; id. Heaut. prol. 38; Cic. Fl. 17, 41; id. Fam. 9, 20, 2 (abl. edaci, as in Ov. M. 15, 354; Val. Fl. 6, 420 et saep.); Hor. S. 2, 2, 92; id. Ep. 2, 1, 173; Ov. Tr. 1, 6, 11: “vultur,” rapacious, id. Am. 2, 6, 33 et saep.—Sup.: “edacissima animalia,” Sen. Ep. 60, 2.—
II. Poet. transf., of inanimate and abstr. things, devouring, destroying: “ignis,” Verg. A. 2, 758; Ov. M. 9, 202; id. F. 4, 785: “imber,” Hor. C. 3, 30, 3: “natura,” Ov. M. 15, 354: “tempus,” id. P. 4, 10, 7; cf. with gen.: “tempus rerum,” id. M. 15, 234: “vetustas,” id. ib. 15, 872: “curae,” gnawing, Hor. C. 2, 11, 18 et saep.
‡† edeatroe , qui praesunt regiis epulis, dicti ἀπὸ τῶν ἐδεσμάτων, Paul. ex Fest. p. 82, 20 Müll. [ἐδέατροι, seneschals of the table, carvers, v. Lidd. and Scott s. v.].
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 9.20.2
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    • Vergil, Aeneid, 2.758
    • Horace, Satires, 2.2.92
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    • Seneca, Epistulae, 60.2
    • Ovid, Tristia, 1.6
    • Ovid, Ex Ponto, 4.10
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