lotophagi
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of lotophagi
< Latin Lōtophagī < Greek Lōtophágoi. See lotus-eater
Example Sentences
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They are thus real Lotophagi, such as are mentioned by Herodotus.
From Scientific American • Mar. 18, 2013
Nine days by cruel storms thence was I borne Athwart the fishy Deep, but on the tenth Reach’d the Lotophagi, a race sustain’d On sweetest fruit alone.
From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William
Tennyson lives in the land of the Lotophagi, in the Arabian Nights of the Bagdad of Caliph Haroun, and in the orchard lawns of King Arthur's Avalon.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various
Lotus Eaters or Lotophagi, an ancient people inhabiting a district of Cyrenaica, on the NE. coast of Africa, who lived on the fruit of the lotus-tree, from which they made wine.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
It seems to produce in them a manner of dreamy enjoyment, which, exaggerated by time and distance, may have given rise to that splendid myth the Lotos, and the Lotophagi.
From First Footsteps in East Africa by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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