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μάργ-ος , η, ον, also ος, ον (A.Eu.67, Pl.Lg.792e):—poet. Adj. (used once by Pl.),
A.mad, μάργε madman! Od.16.421; “μαῖα φίλη, μάργην σε θεοὶ θέσαν” 23.11, cf. Pi.O.2.96, etc.; “θυμὸς μ.” Thgn.1301; “λύσσης πνεύματι μάργῳ” A.Pr.884 (anap.); τάσδε τὰς μάργους, of the Furies, Id.Eu.l.c.; μάργοι ἡδοναί Pl.l.c.; of horses, rampant, furious, “μάργων ἐπιβήτορες ἵππων” Hom.Epigr.4.4, cf.A.Th.475; of wine, “οἶνος δέ οἱ ἔπλετο μάργος” Hes.Fr.121.
2. of appetite, greedy, gluttonous, “μετὰ δ᾽ ἔπρεπε γαστέρι μάργῃ” Od.18.2; “τὸ μ. σῆς γνάθου” E.Cyc.310: metaph., “οἴδματι μάργῳ” Emp.100.7; “μάργοις φλὸξ ἐδαίνυτο γνάθοις” Phryn.Trag.5.4.
3. lewd, lustful, Thgn.581, A.Supp.741, E.El.1027, etc.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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