Fames, famis, f. g. Cic.Hunger: fantine.Ora pallida fame.Virg.In fame frumentum exportate erat ansus. Cicero. In time of famine or dearth, &c.Patientia famis & feigoris.Cicer.Aptenesse to ablde and sustaine hunger.Condimentum cibi, fames.Cic.Auri fames. Sen. Coneronsnesse.Ciborum vetitorum fames.Ouidius.Lust after meates that are forbidden. Arcta fames. Silius. A dearth or famine.Atra. Claud. Dira. Ouid.Dura. Horat. Ieiuna. Ouid.Inattenuata manebat fames.Ouidius.The dearth or famins continued, and not diminished.Misera fames Horat. Obscœna. Virg.Pestifera.Ouid. Rabida. Virg.Auri sacra fames.Virg.Greedfe desire of money.Sæua fames. Lucan. Vesana. Virg. Fame absumi. Li. To be pined with hunger: to be steruen.Commouit cum fames.Cic.Compescere famem. Sen. To srint or alay his hunger.Inextincta fame consici.Ouid.Ime confectus. Cic.Hunger sternen. sumit famem in tenera agna. Sia. He satissieth his hunger: or filleth himsell with eating a tender lambe.Duram famem depellere Hor.To eate: to put away hunger.Depulsa fames & sitis cibo & potione.Cicer.Longan onere famem, Ouid. dominante. Cic.Enecta fame auis.Cic.A birde famished, steruen, or pyued for hunger.Exempta fames epulis. Virgil. With eating they had alayed their hunger.Explere famem. Cice. To satissie or stint hunger.Extimulata fame tigris.Ouid.Made egre with hunger.Famem ferre. Cauil. To susfaine hunger.Hians semper fames.Senec.Greedie or in satiable hunger.Gazis implere famem. Sen. To satisfie greedy couetous with treasure.Incessit fames. Colum. He waxed hungrie.Inextincta fames.Ouid.In satiable hunger.Inferre famem ciuibus.Cic.To famishe the citizens.Infixa fames intimis medullis. Seneca. Inuasit fames Sicyonios. Plin. Laborare fame. Colum. To be an hungred: to sustaine famine.Leuare famem fronde.Ouidius.To alaye their hunger with browsing.Luxuriata fames multo sanguine.Stat.Necare plebem fame.Cic.Necatus fame. Suet. Storuen.Obsontre ambulando famem.Cic. Vide OBSONIVM. Pati famem.Ouid.To snstaine hunger.Pellereglande. Tibull. To eate maste: to fill himselfe with maste. Perferre. Cic.Copia nulla famem releuat.Ouid.Solari famem quercu.Virg.To eate maste: to assuage hunger with maste.Soluere famem. Sen. To take away hunger.Stimulante fame furens. Tibul. Tolerare famem, sitimqúe.Ouid.To sustaine bothe hunger and thirst.Tolerare famem, aliter, Vide TOLERO.Tristi to rpent membra fame. Claud. Fameo.To be hungrie.
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fămes, is (ante- and post-class. nom. sing.: famis, Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 15; Prud. Psych. 479; gen.: fami, Cato and Lucil. ap. Gell. 9, 14, 10; abl., scanned fămē, Lucr. 3, 732; Verg. A. 6, 421; Ov. M. 5, 165; 8, 846; 11, 370 al.) f. [root gha-; Sanscr. gahami, to leave, abandon; Gr. xa/tis, xh=tos, want; xh=ros, deprived of], hunger (syn.: inedia, jejunium, esuries, esuritio). I.Lit.: interficere aliquem siti fameque atque algu, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 36; id. Rud. 2, 2, 7; cf.: cum cibo et potione fames sitisque depulsa est, Cic. Fin. 1, 11, 37: cibi condimentum esse famem, potionis sitim, id. ib. 2, 28, 90: bestiae fame monitae, id. Clu. 25, 67: fame atque inopia rerum omnium confecti, id. Verr. 2, 5, 51, 134; (avis) fame enecta,
, id. H. 14, 96: vincere sacris extis, Val. Fl. 2, 347 et saep.: in principio fame utendum,
the patient must fast
, Cels. 8, 10, 7; cf.: primis diebus fames, deinde liberalius alimentum, id. ib.—Prov.: ambitiosa non est fames,
is not nice
, Sen. Ep. 119, 14: malum panem tibi tenerum et siligineum fames reddet, id. ib. 123, 2.—B.Transf.1.Famine, dearth (rare in class. Lat.): fames, quae tum erat in hac mea Asia: messis enim nulla fuerat, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 8: fames esse coepit, Curt. 10, 8: in fame frumentum exportare, Cic. Fl. 7, 17; Vulg. Ruth, 1, 1; id. Matt. 24, 7 et saep.— 2. In gen., poverty, indigence: aliquem ad famem reicere, Ter. Phorm. prol. 19.II.Trop.A. Like sitis, a violent longing for any thing, greediness, greed, avidity (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): quid non mortalia pectora cogis, Auri sacra fames!Verg. A. 3, 57; so, auri fames, Plin. 33, 4, 21, 72; cf.: argenti sitis importuna famesque, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 23; Plin. 33, 1, 3, 6; cf.: auri fames durissima est, id. 33, 4, 21, 72: ex longa fame satiaret se auro, Curt. 5, 1, 4: crescentem sequitur cura pecuniam Majorumque fames, Hor. C. 3, 16, 17: honorum Marii fames, Flor. 3, 21, 6.— B. Of speech, poverty of expression: jejunitatem et famem malle quam ubertatem et copiam, Cic. Tusc. 2, 1, 3.—C. Personified: Fames, as a goddess, Verg. A. 6, 276; Ov. M. 8, 784; 785 et saep.