Edax, edâcis, pe. pro. om. g. Cic.A great eater: a deuourer: a cõsumer: a glution.Edaces multi cibi. Colume. Deuoures of muche meate: tauenoures.Curæ edaces. Hor. Cousuming and pining cares.Ignis edax.Ouid.Cousuming fire.Liuor edax.Ouid.Backbiting enuy: enuy alway biting at other men.Luctus edax. Sil. Consuming.Parasiti edaces. Hor. Glutconous parasites.Tempus edax retum. Oui. Time that we areth out al things.Turdi edaces. Hor. Vetustas edax. Ouid.Virus edax.Ouid. Vultur edax. Ouid.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ĕdax, ācis, adj. [1. edo; cf. Sanscr. adakas], voracious, gluttonous.I. Prop., Plaut. Pers. 3, 3, 16; Ter. Eun. prol. 38; id. Heaut. prol. 38; Cic. Fl. 17, 41; id. Fam. 9, 20, 2 (abl. edaci, as in Ov. M. 15, 354; Val. Fl. 6, 420 et saep.); Hor. S. 2, 2, 92; id. Ep. 2, 1, 173; Ov. Tr. 1, 6, 11: vultur,
rapacious
, id. Am. 2, 6, 33 et saep.—Sup.: edacissima animalia, Sen. Ep. 60, 2.—II.Poet. transf., of inanimate and abstr. things, devouring, destroying: ignis, Verg. A. 2, 758; Ov. M. 9, 202; id. F. 4, 785: imber, Hor. C. 3, 30, 3: natura, Ov. M. 15, 354: tempus, id. P. 4, 10, 7; cf. with gen.: tempus rerum, id. M. 15, 234: vetustas, id. ib. 15, 872: curae,
gnawing
, Hor. C. 2, 11, 18 et saep. edeatroe, qui praesunt regiis epulis, dicti a)po\ tw=n e)desma/twn, Paul. ex Fest. p. 82, 20 Müll. [e)de/atroi, seneschals of the table, carvers, v. Lidd. and Scott s. v.].