hungry Copy link • hungry, hungered, to be (v. infr.): ēsŭrio, 4: there is prospect of our being h. enough, spes est nos esurituros satis, Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 28: Cic. Verr. 5, 34 init. (= to be starving).
hungry Copy link Outline 1. ēsŭriens, ntis (usu. as part. = being h.)2. jējūnus (strictly, fasting)3. ăvĭdus cibi (positively eager after food) • hungry, hungered: 1. ēsŭriens, ntis (usu. as part. = being h.): to the h. man nothing comes amiss, nihil contemnit esuriens, Sen. (in Q.): the poor h. (half-starved) Greek, Graeculus e., Juv. 3, 78: v. preced. art. 2. jējūnus (strictly, fasting): the h. and weary frames of the Romans, j. fessaque corpora Romanorum, Liv. 21, 55, med.: a h. stomach is mostly content with homely fare, raro j. stomachus vulgaria temnit, Hor. S. 2, 2, 38. 3. ăvĭdus cibi (positively eager after food): Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 16: cf. Hor. S. 1, 4, 126. Phr.: to suffer from h., fame laborare, premi, urgeri (v. hunger, subs.): he used to eat whenever he felt h., vescebatur quocunque tempore stomachus desiderasset, Suet. Aug. 76: to quiet a h. stomach, latrantem stomachum lenire, Hor. S. 2, 2, 18: to wait till one is h. (before eating), famem opperiri, Sall. Cat. 13: to prevent one's feeling h., esuritionem depellere, Gell. 16, 3.
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.).