greedily

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ăvārus, a, um, adj. ( gen. plur. fem. avarūm, Plaut. Truc. 2, 8, 9 dub.; Speng., aurum) [1. aveo, Gell. 10, 5, 13], eagerly desirous of something, esp. of possessions, avaricious, covetous, greedy (opp. largus, Quadrig. ap. Non. p. 510, 20: avarum et avidum ita discernuntur: avarum semper in reprehensione est;

avidum autem malis aliquando, aliquando bonis adjungitur,

Non. p. 442, 12 sq.; v. II.; syn.: avidus, cupidus, tenax, sordidus).

Lit.:

meretrix,

Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 5, and Cat. 110, 7; cf.:

Carmine formosae, pretio capiuntur avarae,

Tib. 3, 1, 7:

leno,

Ter. Heaut. prol. 39:

avarus et furax homo,

Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 268:

semper avarus eget,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 56:

quantum discordet parcus avaro,

id. ib. 2, 2, 194.—With gen.:

publicae pecuniae,

Tac. H. 1, 49:

caedis,

Claud. B. Get. 606 et saep.— Poet. transf. to inanimate things:

fuge litus avarum,

Verg. A. 3, 44 ( = avarorum, Serv.):

Troja, i. e. with reference to the perjured avarice of Laomedon,

Ov. M. 11, 208 (cf.:

perjura Troja,

Verg. A. 5, 811; Ov. M. 11, 215):

fraus,

Hor. C. 4, 9, 37:

spes,

id. ib. 4, 11, 25:

venter,

id. Ep. 1, 15, 32:

mare,

id. C. 3, 29, 61: Acheron. Verg. G. 2, 492:

ignis,

Prop. 3, 26, 10 al. —

Transf., in the poets sometimes without the access. idea of reproach: Graiis praeter laudem nullius avaris, eager only for glory, Hor.A.P.324:

agricola,

Verg. G. 1, 48.— Comp.:

avariores magistratus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 82:

ruberes, Viveret in terris te si quis avarior uno,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 157. — Sup.:

homo avarissime et spurcissime,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 37.— Adv., covetously, greedily, avariciously, etc.

Ante-class. form ăvārĭter, Cato and Quadrig. ap. Non. p. 510, 17:

ingurgitare,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 35. —Of gluttony:

si quis avidus poscit escam avariter,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 7, 12; cf. avaritia, II.—

Class. form ăvārē:

avare pretium statui arti meae,

Ter. Heaut. prol. 48:

aliquid facere,

Cic. Off. 3, 8, 37; Nep. Lys. 4, 1:

superbe avareque imperitare victis,

Liv. 21, 1, 3; cf. Curt. 4, 7.— Comp., more eagerly, more greedily:

avarius exigere opus,

Col. 1, 7, 1.— Sup.:

avarissime horas suas servare,

Sen. Ot. Sap. 32.

vŏrax, ācis, adj. [id.], swallowing greedily, devouring, ravenous, voracious (class.).

Lit.:

quae Charybdis tam vorax?

Cic. Phil. 2, 27, 67:

venter,

Ov. M. 15, 94.—

Trop., devouring, destroying, consuming, destructive, ruinous:

pontus,

Luc. 2, 664:

flamma,

Sil. 4, 687:

impensae,

Val. Max. 7, 1 fin.:

usura,

Luc. 1, 181.— Comp.:

ignis,

Ov. M. 8, 839.—In mal. part.: culus, lecherous, lustful, Cat. 33, 4.— Adv.: vŏrācĭter, greedily, voraciously, Macr. S. 6, 5 med.

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to eat greedily, swallow up, consume, gorge oneself.

ăvĭdus, a, um, adj. [1. aveo], longing eagerly for something (either lawful or unlawful), desirous, eager, earnest, greedy (diff. from avarus, q. v.).

In gen., constr. with gen., in with acc., dat., or absol.

With gen.:

cibi,

Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 16:

Romani semper appetentes gloriae praeter ceteras gentes atque avidi laudis,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 3, 7:

festinatio victoriae avida,

id. Phil. 3, 1; so,

potentiae, honoris, divitiarum,

Sall. J. 15, 4:

avidissimus privatae gratiae, id. H. Fr. (Orat. Cottae ad Popul. p. 245 Gerl.): turba avida novarum rerum,

Liv. 1, 8, 6:

avidus poenae (sc. sumendae),

id. 8, 30, 13:

libidinum,

Hor. C. 1, 18, 11:

futuri,

id. A. P. 172 et saep.:

belli gerundi,

Sall. J. 35, 3: malefaciundi, id. H. Fr. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 9, 343 (p. 251, n. 116 Gerl.):

avidior properandi,

id. H. Fr. 4, 30 Gerl.:

videndi,

Ov. M. 10, 56 et saep.— Poet. with inf. (inst. of gen. of gerund.):

avidi committere pugnam,

Ov. M. 5, 75:

cognoscere amantem,

id. ib. 10, 472:

Chaos innumeros avidum confundere mundos,

Luc. 6, 696 al. —A. more remote gen. relation is found in Lucr.:

Humanum genus est avidum nimis auricularum,

in respect of, Lucr. 4, 594.—

With in with acc.:

avida in novas res ingenia,

Liv. 22, 21, 2:

avidae in direptiones manus,

id. 5, 20, 6.—

With dat.:

servorum manus subitis avidae,

Tac. H. 1, 7.—

Absol. and transf. to inanimate things:

ita sunt avidae (aures meae), etc.,

Cic. Or. 29, 104:

avidi cursus frena retentat equi,

Ov. P. 3, 9, 26:

avidae libidines,

Cic. Sen. 12, 39:

amor,

Cat. 68, 83:

cor,

Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 58:

pectus,

id. H. 9, 161:

amplexus,

id. M. 7, 143.—

Esp

Eager for gain, avaricious, covetous, greedy of money, = avarus:

me dices avidum esse hominem,

Plaut. Ps. 5, 2, 34; id. Aul. prol. 9; 3, 5, 12; id. Bacch. 2, 3, 43:

Sed habet patrem quendam avidum, miserum atque aridum,

Ter. Heaut, 3, 2, 15:

divitiasque Conduplicant avidi,

Lucr. 3, 71:

aliquantum ad rem avidior,

Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 51:

grati animi, non appetentis, non avidi signa proferri perutile est,

Cic. de Or. 2, 43, 182; id. Rosc. Com. 7 fin.:

avidae manus heredis,

Hor. C. 4, 7, 19 al. —

Eager for food, hungry, greedy, voracious, gluttonous:

Avidos vicinum funus et aegros Exanimat,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 126:

convivae,

id. ib. 1, 5, 75: Noli avidus esse in omni epulatione, * Vulg. Eccli. 37, 32.— Poet.:

Efficit ut largis avidum mare fluminis undis,

insatiable, Lucr. 1, 1031:

Exitio est avidum mare nautis,

Hor. C. 1, 28, 18:

morbus,

Lucr. 6, 1236:

manus Mortis,

Tib. 1, 3, 4:

ignis,

Ov. M. 9, 234; 12, 280:

flammae,

id. ib. 9, 172:

morsus,

id. ib. 4, 724 et saep.—

In Lucr. of space as swallowing up objects, wide, large, vast:

Inde avidei partem montes silvaeque ferarum Possedere,

Lucr. 5, 202: avido complexu quem tenet aether id. 2, 1066; so id. 5, 470.— Adv., eagerly, greedily, etc.

Anteclass. form ăvĭdĭter: invadere pocula, Val. Antias ap. Arn. 5, p. 155; so App.: merum ventri ingurgitare, Met. 4, p. 145, 27.—

Class. form ăvĭdē: ab ludis animus atque aures avent avide exspectantes mentium, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 6, § 83 Müll. (Trag. v. 71 Vahl.); Lucr. 4, 1108:

adripere Graecas litteras,

Cic. Sen. 8, 26:

adpetere aliquid,

id. ib. 20, 72:

exspectare aliquid,

id. Att. 12, 40; 16, 10:

jam bibit avide,

Suet. Tib. 59:

pransus,

Hor. S. 1, 6, 127 al. — Comp.:

avidius se in voluptates mergere,

Liv. 23, 18, 11:

procurrere,

id. 34, 15, 4:

avidius vino ciboque corpora onerant,

id. 41, 2, 13:

vesci,

Suet. Calig. 18.— Sup.:

avidissime exspectare aliquid,

Cic. Phil. 14, 1:

credere aliquid,

Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 4:

adprehendere palmam,

id. 14, 22, 28, § 147.

dē-vŏro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to swallow, swallow down, gulp down, devour (class.; esp. freq. in transf. signif.—for syn. cf.: edo, comedo, vescor, pascor, mando).

Lit., of the physical act:

id quod devoratur,

Cic. N. D. 2, 54, 135:

ovum gallinaceum integrum,

Cato R. R. 71: laseris paululum, [p. 567] Cels. 4, 4, 4:

salivam suam,

id. 2, 6, 98;

lapides,

Plin. 8, 10, 10, § 29:

succum,

id. 20, 23, 98, § 260:

fumum,

id. 26, 6, 16, § 30 et saep.—

Transf.

Of inanimate subjects, to swallow up, ingulf, absorb:

devorer telluris hiatu,

Ov. H. 3, 63:

terra devoravit montem,

Plin. 2, 91, 93, § 205:

vel me Charybdis devoret,

Ov. Tr. 5, 2, 74:

terras devorant aquae,

Plin. 31, 1, 1, § 2:

sol aquas devorans,

id. 20 prooem. §

1: ne rotae devorarentur (viarum mollitudine),

Vitr. 10, 6.—

To seize upon greedily or hastily, to swallow eagerly, to devour: meretricem ego item esse reor, mare ut est;

quod des, devorat,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 16:

spe et opinione praedam,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 51; cf.:

spe devoratum lucrum,

id. Fl. 24; and:

regis hereditatem spe,

id. Att. 1, 16, 10:

aliquid oculis,

Just. 21, 5, 6; cf.:

spectat oculis devorantibus draucos,

Mart. 1, 97; cf. infra III. B.—

To swallow down, repress, suppress, check: verborum pars devorari solet, to be swallowed, i. e. only half pronounced, Quint. 11, 3, 33; so, verba, Sen. de Ira, 3, 14 fin.; cf.

lacrimas,

i. e. to repress, Ov. F. 4, 845; id. M. 13, 540:

gemitus,

Sen. Ep. 66 med. —

Of property, to consume, to waste, = exhaurire:

omnem pecuniam publicam,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 76; id. Phil. 13, 2, 3; id. Pis. 21.—And with a pers. object: Si. Jamne illum comesurus es? Ba. Dum recens est, Dum datur, dum calet, devorari decet, Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 26; id. As. 2, 2, 71; cf.: ut hominem devorari, cujus patrimonium consumitur, Quint. 8, 6, 25.—

Trop., to consume, destroy:

devorent vos arma vestra,

Just. 14, 4, 14; cf.:

aquilarum pinnae reliquarum alitum pinnas devorant,

Plin. 10, 3, 4, § 15:

vox devoratur,

i. e. is swallowed up, lost, id. 11, 51, 112, § 270: devoravi nomen imprudens, swallowed, i. e. I have lost, utterly forgotten, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 63: devorato pudore, Ap. M. 9, p. 225.—

Trop.

To swallow any thing unpleasant, i. e to bear patiently, to endure:

hominum ineptias ac stultitias,

Cic. Brut. 67, 236; so,

molestiam paucorum dierum,

id. Phil. 6, 6, 17:

taedium illud,

Quint. 11, 2, 41: bilem et dolorem, Tert. Res. carn. 54.—

To accept eagerly, enjoy:

quid tibi faciam qui illos libros devorasti,

Cic. Att. 7, 3, 2:

os impiorum devorat iniquitatem,

Vulg. Prov. 19, 28:

auscultate et mea dicta devorate,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 59; cf.:

orationem dulcem (aures),

id. Poen. 5, 2, 9:

verbum ipsum (voluptatis),

id. Sest. 10, 23.—

ejus oratio, nimia religione attenuata, a multitudine et a foro devorabatur, qs. swallowed but not digested (i. e. heard without being understood), Cic. Brut. 82, 283.

haurĭo, hausi, haustum, 4 (archaic imperf. hauribant, Lucr. 5, 1324; perf. subj. haurierint, Varr. ap. Prisc. p. 905 P.; part. perf. haurītus, App. M. 3, p. 139; 6, p. 178; supin. hauritu, id. ib. 2, p. 121; part. fut. hauritura, Juv. in Joh. 2, 253:

hausurus,

Verg. A. 4, 383; Sil. 7, 584; 16, 11:

hausturus,

Sen. Q. N. 4, 2, 1; dep. perf. foramen fama est lucem hausum, Sol. 5, 15), v. a. [perh. for haus-io; cf. hio, hisco; prop. to empty], to draw up or out, to draw (class., esp. freq. in the transf. and trop. signif.; cf. sorbeo).

Lit., to draw water, etc.:

cum vidisset haustam aquam de jugi puteo, terrae motum dixit instare,

Cic. Div. 1, 50, 112:

palmis hausta duabus aqua,

Ov. F. 2, 294:

is neque limo Turbatam haurit aquam,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 60:

ipse manus hausta victrices abluit unda,

Ov. M. 4, 740.— Absol.:

num igitur, si potare velit, de dolio sibi hauriendum putet?

Cic. Brut. 83, 288. —Prov.: de faece haurire, to draw from the dregs, i. e. to choose the worst:

tu quidem de faece hauris,

i. e. speak of the worst orators, id. ib. 69, 244.—

Transf.

To drain, drink up; to spill, shed:

ita vina ex libidine hauriuntur, atque etiam praemio invitatur ebrietas (shortly before and after, bibere),

Plin. 14, 22, 28, § 140; cf. id. ib. § 146; and: cui non audita est obscoenae Salmacis undae Aethiopesque lacus, quos si quis faucibus hausit, Aut furit [p. 843] aut, etc., Ov. M. 15, 320 (for which:

qui ex Clitorio lacu biberint,

Plin. 31, 2, 13, § 16):

quae (pocula) simul arenti sitientes hausimus ore,

i. e. drained, emptied, drunk off, Ov. M. 14, 277; so,

cratera,

id. ib. 8, 680:

spumantem pateram,

Verg. A. 1, 738: statim me perculso ad meum sanguinem hauriendum, et spirante re publica ad ejus spolia detrahenda advolaverunt, to drain, i. e. to spill, shed, Cic. Sest. 24, 54:

cruorem,

Ov. M. 7, 333; 13, 331:

nudantis cervicem jugulumque, et reliquum sanguinem jubentes haurire,

Liv. 22, 51, 7; Lact. 5, 1, 8:

quem (sanguinem) civiles hauserunt,

Luc. 1, 13.—

Of things:

imoque a gurgite pontus Vertitur et canas alveus haurit aquas,

draws in, lets in, Ov. F. 3, 591: jam flammae tulerint, inimicus et hauserit ensis, drunk up, i. e. their blood, Verg. A. 2, 600.—

In gen., to tear up, pluck out, draw out, to take to one's self, take; to swallow, devour, consume, exhaust:

(ventus) Arbusta evolvens radicibus haurit ab imis,

Lucr. 6, 141:

haurit arenas ungula,

Stat. Th. 2, 46; cf.:

humumque Effodit... terraeque immurmurat haustae,

i. e. torn up, dug up, Ov. M. 11, 187:

Actoridae magni rostro femur hausit adunco (= transfodit),

tore open, id. ib. 8, 370:

pectora ferro,

id. ib. 8, 438:

latus alicui,

Lucr. 5, 1324; Ov. M. 5, 126; 9, 412; Verg. A. 10, 314; Luc. 10, 387:

ventrem atque inguina uno alteroque ictu,

Liv. 7, 10, 10; Sil. 5, 524:

tum latus ejus gladio haurit,

Curt. 7, 2, 27:

impresso gladio jugulum ejus hausisse,

Tac. H. 1, 41 fin.:

lumen,

to pluck out the eye, Ov. M. 13, 564:

cineres haustos,

i. e. scraped up, collected, id. ib. 8, 538; so,

cineres,

id. ib. 13, 425 sq.; cf. id. ib. 14, 136:

ille cavis hausto spargit me pulvere palmis,

id. ib. 9, 35:

sumptum haurit ex aerario,

draws, takes, Cic. Agr. 2, 13, 32; cf.:

at suave est ex magno tollere acervo. Dum ex parvo nobis tantundem haurire relinquas, Cur? etc.,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 52:

quia dentibus carent, aut lambunt cibos aut integros hauriunt,

to swallow, Col. 8, 17, 11; cf.:

solidos haurire cervos taurosque,

Plin. 8, 14, 14, § 36: hausisti patrias luxuriosus opes, qs. hast swallowed up, devoured, consumed, Mart. 9, 83, 4:

nos tellus haurit,

Sil. 3, 654; cf.:

sua haurire,

Tac. A. 16, 18; 2, 8; 3, 72:

animam recipere auramque communem haurire,

i. e. inhale, breathe, Quint. 6 praef. §

12: suspiratus,

fetching a deep sigh, Ov. M. 14, 129: hauriat hunc oculis ignem crudelis ab alto Dardanus, may he swallow with his eyes, i. e. greedily look at, Verg. A. 4, 661; so,

aliquid oculis,

ib. 12, 946; Sil. 11, 284;

and without oculis: caelum,

Verg. A. 10, 899; cf.:

lucem (primae pecudes),

i. e. to see the light, be born, Verg. G. 2, 340:

vocemque his auribus hausi,

I received his voice with these ears, id. A. 4, 359; so,

dicta auribus,

Ov. M. 13, 787; cf.:

oculis auribusque tantum gaudium,

Liv. 27, 51:

hauriri urbes terrae hiatibus,

to be swallowed up, Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 119; cf.:

cum praealtis paludibus arma, equi haurirentur,

Tac. H. 5, 15:

altitudine et mollitia nivis hauriebantur,

id. ib. 1, 79:

hauriuntur gurgitibus,

id. A. 1, 70:

aggerem ac vineas incendium hausit,

Liv. 5, 7, 3:

cunctos incendium hausit,

Tac. H. 4, 60:

miratur et haurit Pectore ignes,

imbibes, Ov. M. 10, 253; cf.:

flammasque latentes Hausit,

id. ib. 8, 325:

caelo medium Sol igneus orbem Hauserat,

i. e. had rapidly passed through, finished, Verg. G. 4, 427:

vastum iter,

Stat. Th. 1, 369: bracchia Cancri (Titan), Col. poët. 10, 313: cum spes arrectae juvenum exsultantiaque haurit Corda pavor pulsans, exhausts = exhaurit, Verg. G. 3, 105:

pariter pallorque ruborque Purpureas hausere genas,

Stat. Th. 1, 538.—

Trop., to draw, borrow, take, drink in, derive:

sequimur potissimum Stoicos, non ut interpretes, sed, ut solemus, e fontibus eorum judicio arbitrioque nostro, quantum quoque modo videbitur, hauriemus,

Cic. Off. 1, 2, 6; cf.:

fontes, unde hauriretis,

id. de Or. 1, 46, 203:

a fontibus potius haurire quam rivulos consectari,

id. Ac. 1, 2, 8:

reconditis atque abditis e fontibus haurire,

id. de Or. 1, 3, 12:

omnia dixi hausta e fonte naturae,

id. Fin. 1, 21, 71:

eodem fonte haurire laudes suas,

id. Fam. 6, 6, 9; id. Caecin. 27, 78:

quam (legem) non didicimus, accepimus, legimus, verum ex natura ipsa arripuimus, hausimus, expressimus,

id. Mil. 4, 10 (quoted in Cic. Or. 49, 165):

quas (artes) cum domo haurire non posses, arcessivisti ex urbe ea (i. e. Athenis), quae, etc.,

id. Brut. 97, 332:

ex divinitate, unde omnes animos haustos aut acceptos aut libatos haberemus,

id. Div. 2, 11, 26; cf.:

animos hominum quadam ex parte extrinsecus esse tractos et haustos,

id. ib. 1, 32, 70:

quid enim non sorbere animo, quid non haurire cogitatione, cujus sanguinem non bibere censetis?

id. Phil. 11, 5, 10; cf.:

libertatem sitiens hausit,

id. Rep. 1, 43:

voluptates undique,

id. Tusc. 5, 6, 16:

dolorem,

id. Cael. 24, 59:

calamitates,

id. Tusc. 1, 35, 86:

luctum,

id. Sest. 29, 63:

unde laboris Plus haurire mali est quam ex re decerpere fructus,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 79:

animo spem turbidus hausit inanem,

drank in illusive hope, Verg. A. 10, 648:

expugnationes urbium, populationes agrorum, raptus Penatium hauserant animo,

had thought of, intended, Tac. H. 1, 51:

supplicia,

to suffer, Verg. A. 4, 383:

(Thessali) velut ex diutina siti nimis avide meram haurientes libertatem,

indulging, revelling in, Liv. 39, 26, 7; cf.:

studium philosophiae acriter hausisse,

Tac. Agr. 4.