abounding in wild beasts, keeping wild beasts
abounding in wild beasts, of a country, Str. 2.5.33; keeping wild beasts, Procl. Par.Ptol. 250.
II fed on reptiles
proparox., θηριότροφος, ον, Pass., fed on reptiles, Gal. 11.143.
The corpus record
θηριοτρόφ-ος
theriotrophos
abounding in wild beasts
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
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