βορά

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