Opsophagos
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Opsophagos is a noun meaning (literary or historical) A glutton, a gourmand, chiefly one who hogs and eats excessive amounts of fish.
Meaning
(literary or historical) A glutton, a gourmand, chiefly one who hogs and eats excessive amounts of fish.
Example Sentences
How does this help us with the opsophagoi listed by Athenaeus′ comic poets and anecdotalists and their feats of consumption?
Thus, at the precise moment during the banquet when Myrtilus points out what should be understood as an opsophagos, it is fish that are brought to Larensis′ table.
2012, Dan Brayton, Shakespeare′s Ocean: An Ecocritical Exploration, footnote, unnumbered page, 25. James Davidson (Courtesans and Fishcakes) describes something similar in classical Athenian culture, a cultural association between the fish desired by the opsophagos, or fisheater, and the bodies of prostitutes (male and female).
Word Forms
- opsophagoi
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include glutton, gourmand, orgiast, overeater, polyphage, greedyguts.
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