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The [same term as] with us.[1] But Xenophon says "to be starving" when the stomach is eating itself with hunger.
"Going to the yoke beasts, if he ever saw some food he gave it to those who were starving."[2]
"And when it is winter the experience of being starving falls upon labourers and flocks and men, either because of the cooling of the heat, or the piercing and sharp wind of settling winter comes and cuts the body and destroys the remitting heat outside again."[3]

Boulimian: to par' hêmin. Xenophôn de boulimian legei to ton stomachon epidaknesthai hupo limou. ho de pariôn epi ta hupozugia, ei ti pou horôiê brôton, edidou tois boulimiôsi. sumpiptei te tês boulimiaseôs pathos, chionos ousês, ponousi kai ktênesi kai anthrôpois, eite tou thermou dia peripsuxin kai puknôsin, hotan entos hapan katheirchthêi, tên trophên athroôs analiskontos, eite drimeia kai leptê tês chionos diaduomenês iousa pnoê temnei to sôma kai diaphtheirei to thermon exô authis diadidomenon.

cf. generally beta 439, beta 441, epsilon 35.
[1] cf. kappa 371.
[2] Xenophon, Anabasis 4.5.8 (web address 1 below), quoted here from beta 565.
[3] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler suggested Symeon Metaphrastes and, ultimately, Aelian; then in her addenda she added the alternative of FGrH 151, an anonymous Alexander-history.)

David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented notes and keywords) on 4 June 2003@04:37:47.
Catharine Roth (added cross-reference) on 4 July 2003@01:41:10.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 1 June 2012@07:58:22.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 2 July 2012@16:03:48.
David Whitehead (expanded n.3) on 26 January 2014@07:13:30.

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