HUNGRY Copy link • HUNGRYesuriens (also figuratively = desirous of): edundi appetens (having a desire to eat): fame laborans or pressus (suffering from want of food): jejunus (still fasting). To be or feel hungry, esurire: cibi appetentem esse: fame laborare, premi (to be suffering from hunger). Augustus used to eat before the usual dinner-time, whenever and wherever he felt hungry. Octavianus vescebatur et ante cenam quocuinque tempore et loco, quo stomachus desiderasset. IMPROPR., A hungry soil, solum exile et macrum (Cic.): ager macrior (Varr.) or macerrimus (Col.).