of the nature of a cancer
of the nature of a cancer, πάθη Plu. Suav. 2.1087e; ἕλκη Dsc. 2.78, 5.112, cf. Heliod. ap. Orib. 46.22.3, Gal. 6.750, 815.
II of morbid hunger
of morbid hunger, Gloss.
The corpus record
φᾰγεδαιν-ικός
phagedainikos
of the nature of a cancer
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What it meant — LSJ
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