A.“γαστῆρσι” Hp. Morb.4.54, “γαστράσι” D.C.54.22:—paunch, belly, Il.13.372, etc.; γ. ἀσπίδος the hollow of a shield, Tyrt.11.24; belly or wide part of a bottle, Cratin.190.
2. the belly, as craving food, “κέλεται δέ ἑ γ.” Od.6.133; “βόσκειν ἣν γαστέρ᾽” 17.228; γαστέρι δ᾽ οὔ πως ἔστι νέκυν πενθῆσαι, i. e. by fasting, Il.19.225; “ἐν γαστρὸς ἀνάγκαις” A.Ag.726 (lyr.); to express gluttony, “γαστέρες οἶον” Hes.Th.26; “γ. ἀργαί” Epimenid.1; “ἐγκράτεια γαστρὸς καὶ ποτοῦ” X.Cyr.1.2.8, cf. Oec.9.11; γαστρὸς ἐγκρατής master of his belly, Id.Mem.1.2.1; opp. γαστρὸς ἥττων, ib.1.5.1; γαστρὶ δουλεύειν, χαρίζεσθαι, to be the slave of his belly, ib. 1.6.8, 2.1.2; γ. δελεάζεσθαι ib. 2.1.4; “τῇ γ. μετρεῖν τὴν εὐδαιμονίαν” D.18.296; τᾶς γαστρὸς φείδεσθαι, com. of one who has nothing to eat, Theoc. 21.41.
II. womb, “ὅντινα γαστέρι μήτηρ . . φέροι” Il.6.58; ἐκ γαττρός from the womb, from infancy, Thgn.305; ἐν γαστρὶ ἔχουσα big with child, Hdt.3.32; “ὗν ἔχουσαν ἐν γ.” PFlor.130.3 (iii A. D.); “ἐν γ. φέρουσα” Pl.Lg.792e; ἐν γ. λαβεῖν conceive, Arist.HA 632a28, AP11.18 (Nicarch.), LXX Ge.30.41, al.; συλλαμβάνειν v.l. ib. Ge.25.21, cf. Ev.Luc.1.31; “ἐς γ. βάλλεσθαι” Hdt.3.28; κατὰ γαστρὸς ἔχειν Vett. Val. 193.33; “φέρειν” Gp. 16.1.3; also “γυνὴ ἑπτὰ ἤδη γαστέρας δυστοκοῦσα” Philostr.VA3.39. (Perh.for γραστήρ, cf. γράω.)
