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to acquire with eagerness

  • 1 voro

    vŏro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [Sanscr. root gar-, to swallow; Gr. root bor- in bibrôskô, to devour; cf. also gramen], to swallow whole, swallow up, eat greedily, devour (cf. absorbeo).
    I.
    Lit.:

    animalium alia vorant, alia mandunt,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 122; Plin. 10, 71, 91, § 196:

    vitulum (balaena),

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 61:

    edim atque ambabus malis expletis vorem,

    id. Trin. 2, 4, 73:

    mella avide (apes),

    Plin. 11, 19, 21, § 67:

    Lucrina (ostrea),

    Mart. 6, 11, 5: resinam ex melle Aegyptiam vorato, salvum feceris, swallow or gulp down, take, as medicine, Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 31;

    so of medicine,

    Mart. 1, 88, 2; Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 24.—Prov.:

    meus hic est: hamum vorat,

    swallows, takes, Plaut. Curc. 3, 61; id. Truc. 1, 1, 21; cf.: hamum voras, Ambros. Tob. n. 7.—
    II.
    Transf.
    1.
    Of things, to devour, swallow up, overwhelm, destroy, etc.:

    vorat haec (Charybdis) raptas revomitque carinas,

    Ov. M. 13, 731:

    navem (rapidus vortex),

    Verg. A. 1, 117; cf. poet.:

    agmina (vortex pugnae),

    Sil. 4, 230:

    corpus (ulcus),

    Cels. 5, 28, 3: viam, to finish or perform quickly, Cat. 35, 7:

    Thracia quinque vadis Istrum vorat Amphitrite,

    takes in, swallows up, Claud. B. Get. 337.—
    2.
    Of property, to use up, consume, squander:

    idem in reliquis generis ejus (murrhinorum vasorum) quantum voraverit, licet existimare,

    Plin. 37, 2, 7, § 19.—
    III.
    Trop., to devour, i. e. to acquire with eagerness, pursue passionately (rare but class.):

    litteras,

    Cic. Att. 4, 11, 2. —In mal. part., Cat. 80, 6; Mart. 2, 51, 6; 7, 67, 15.—
    B.
    To consume, waste:

    amor vorat tectas penitus medullas,

    Sen. Hippol. 282; 642.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > voro

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