acorn-eating
acorn-eating, esp. of Arcadians, Alc. (?). 91, Orac. ap. Hdt. 1.66, Plu. Cor. 3, Nonn. D. 13.287, Them. Or. 26.316c.
The corpus record
βᾰλᾰνη-φάγος
balanephagos
acorn-eating
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Where it lives
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- βαλανηφάγοι · balanēphagoi Herodotus, Histories 1.66.2 (DIORISIS sentence 433)
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.