βορά, ἡ,
food, properly of carnivorous beasts, ποντίοις δάκεσι δὸς βοράν [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 583 (Lyric poetry), compare “Ch.” 530; θηρσὶν ἄθλιον β. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1603, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 30; κυνὸς β. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 416; ὁ λέων.. [χαίρει] ὅτι β. ἕξει 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1118a23 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of cannibal feasts, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.119 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κρεῶν.. οἰκείας βορᾶς of their own flesh served as food, of the children of Thyestes, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1220, compare 1597 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; βορᾶς τοῦ.. Οἰδίπου γόνου food torn from the body of the son of Oedipus, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1017, compare 1040 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; βορᾷ χαίρουσιν ἀνθρωποκτόν; [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 127 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐ γὰρ ἐν γαστρὸς β. τὸ χρηστὸν εἶναι in gluttony, [[ [prev. author] “Supp.” 865 ] Refs]: less frequently of simple food, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 124.5, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 490, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 274, etc. (βορρά] Refs 5th c.BC+] is probably falsa lectio for{φορβά} in [[“Anthologia Graeca” 3.14.) (Cf. βιβρώσκω] Refs]: g[uglide]er[schwa]-, cf. Sanskrit -gara- in compounds (compare δημο-βόρος, Latin carni-vorus) 'devouring', giráti 'swallow', Latin vorare, Lithuanian gérti 'drink', etc.)