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|Definition=ἡ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[food]], prop. of carnivorous beasts, ποντίοις δάκεσι δὸς βοράν <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>583</span> (lyr.), cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ch.</span>530</span>; θηρσὶν ἄθλιον β. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ph.</span>1603</span>, cf.<span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>30</span>; κυνὸς β. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>416</span>; ὁ λέων… [χαίρει] ὅτι β. ἕξει <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">EN</span>1118a23</span>; of cannibal feasts, <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.119</span>; <b class="b3">κρεῶν… οἰκείας βορᾶς</b> of their own flesh [[served as food]], of the children of Thyestes, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>1220</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">1597</span>; <b class="b3">βορᾶς τοῦ… Οἰδίπου γόνου</b> [[food]] torn from the body of the son of Oedipus, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>1017</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">1040</span>; <b class="b3">βορᾷ χαίρουσιν ἀνθρωποκτόνῳ</b>; <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Cyc.</span>127</span>; <b class="b3">οὐ γὰρ ἐν γαστρὸς β. τὸ χρηστὸν εἶναι</b> in [[gluttony]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Supp.</span>865</span>: less freq. of simple [[food]], <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">Fr.</span>124.5</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>490</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span>274</span>, etc. ([[βορρά]] is prob. f.l. for [[φορβά]] in <span class="title">AP</span>3.14.) (Cf. [[βιβρώσκω]]: <b class="b2">gu̯erə-</b>, cf. Skt. <b class="b2">-gara-</b> in compds. (cf. <b class="b3">δημο-βόρος</b>, Lat. [[carni-vorus]]) 'devouring', [[giráti]] 'swallow', Lat. [[vorare]], Lith. [[gérti]] 'drink', etc.)</span>