γαστήρ, ἡ,
genitive έρος, γαστρός: dative -έρι, γαστρί (the longer forms in Epic dialect, Lyric poetry, and once in Trag., [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 220)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: dative plural γαστῆρσι [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 4.54, γαστράσι 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 54.22 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—paunch, belly, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.372, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; γ. ἀσπίδος the hollow of a shield, [[ 7th c.BC: Tyrtaeus Elegiacus 11.24 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; belly or wide part of a bottle, [[ 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 190. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 the belly, as craving food, κέλεται δέ ἑ γ. [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.133; βόσκειν ἣν γαστέρ᾽ 17.228 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; γαστέρι δ᾽ οὔ πως ἔστι νέκυν πενθῆσαι, i. e. by fasting, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.225; ἐν γαστρὸς ἀνάγκαις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 726 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; to express gluttony, γαστέρες οἶον [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 26; γ. ἀργαί 6th c.BC: Epimenides Philosophus 1; ἐγκράτεια γαστρὸς καὶ ποτοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.2.8, compare “Oec.” 9.11 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; γαστρὸς ἐγκρατής master of his belly, [[ [prev. author] “Mem.” 1.2.1; opposed to γαστρὸς ἥττων, [prev. work] 1.5.1 ] Refs]; γαστρὶ δουλεύειν, χαρίζεσθαι, to be the slave of his belly, [[[prev. work] 1.6.8, 2.1.2 ] Refs]; γ. δελεάζεσθαι[[ [prev. work] 2.1.4; τῇ γ. μετρεῖν τὴν εὐδαιμονίαν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.296 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τᾶς γαστρὸς φείδεσθαι, com. of one who has nothing to eat, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 21.41. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__3 paunch stuffed with mincemeat, sausage, haggis, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.44, 118, 20.25, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 409. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]