fames: inedia (abstinence from food): esuries (rare; caelius, in Cic., Fam., 8, 1; esuritio, also rare). To feel hunger, esurire: to be suffering from hunger, fame laborare: to be dying of hunger; to be tormented by hunger, fame premi, or urgeri, or uri: to be dying of hunger, fame enecari: to die of hunger (litterally), fame mori, perire, absumi, consumi, connci: to appease one’s hunger, famem explere or expellere (propulsare, poetically): to be dying of hunger (figuratively), fame enecari. (Prov.) Hunger is the best sauce, cibi condimentum fames est (Cic.): malum panem tenerum tibi et siligineum fames reddet (Sen., Ep., 123, 2).