βρῶσις, εως, ἡ,
Epic dialect βρώσ-ιος [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 797 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: (βιβρώσκω):— meat, opposed to πόσις, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.490, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 28, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.3.15, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 783c: in _plural_, opposed to πόσεις, 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 235; β. ἀναγκαία 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.70. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 pasture, προβάτων [[ “PLips.” 118.15 (2nd c.AD). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II eating, παίδων [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 619c; ἐρινὸς ἀχρεῖος ὢν ἐς βρῶσιν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 181. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 taste, flavour, [[ 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 377. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__II.3 corrosion, rust, [[NT.Matt.6.19] NT]; decay, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.422 (_plural_), 12.879. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]