The corpus record

ἀδη-φάγος

adephagos

gluttonous, greedy

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Where it lives

Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k

What it meant

ἀδη-φάγος · adē-phagos — LSJ

gluttonous, greedy, that burns much oil

gluttonous, greedy, ἀνήρ Theoc. 22.115; τὴν ἀ. νόσον S. Ph. 313; ἀ. λύχνος, of a lamp that burns much oil, Alc.Com. 21.

2 devouring much money, costly

metaph., devouring much money, costly, τριήρεις Lys. Fr. 39, cf. Philist. 58; of racehorses, Pherecr. 197, Ar. Fr. 736.

In the wild

ἀδηφάγον · adēphagon Sophocles, Philoctetes 310–313

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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