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|Definition=ἡ, [[food]], prop. of [[carnivorous]] [[beast]]s, ποντίοις δάκεσι δὸς βοράν [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[Prometheus Vinctus|Pr.]]''583 (lyr.), cf. ''Ch.''530; θηρσὶν ἄθλιον β. E.''Ph.''1603, cf.S.''Ant.''30; κυνὸς β. [[Aristophanes|Ar.]]''[[The Knights|Eq.]]''416; ὁ [[λέων]]… [χαίρει] ὅτι β. ἕξει [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Nicomachean Ethics|EN]]''1118a23; of cannibal feasts, [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.119; <b class="b3">κρεῶν… οἰκείας βορᾶς</b> of their own flesh [[serve]]d as [[food]], of the children of Thyestes, [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[Agamemnon|Ag.]]''1220, cf. 1597; <b class="b3">βορᾶς τοῦ… Οἰδίπου γόνου</b> [[food]] torn from the body of the son of Oedipus, S.''Ant.''1017, cf. 1040; <b class="b3">βορᾷ χαίρουσιν ἀνθρωποκτόνῳ</b>; E.''Cyc.''127; <b class="b3">οὐ γὰρ ἐν γαστρὸς βορά τὸ χρηστὸν εἶναι</b> in [[gluttony]], Id.''Supp.''865: less freq. of simple [[food]], Pi.''Fr.''124.5, [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[The Persians|Pers.]]''490, S.''Ph.''274, etc. ([[βορρά]] is prob. [[falsa lectio|f.l.]] for [[φορβά]] in ''AP''3.14.) (Cf. [[βιβρώσκω]]: gu̯erə-, cf. Skt. -gara- in compds. (cf. [[δημοβόρος]], Lat. [[carnivorus]]) '[[devour]]ing', giráti '[[swallow]]', Lat. [[vorare]], Lith. gérti '[[drink]]', etc.)