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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]

*boulimia=n: to\ par' h(mi=n. *cenofw=n de\ boulimia=n le/gei to\ to\n sto/maxon e)pida/knesqai u(po\ limou=. o( de\ pariw\n e)pi\ ta\ u(pozu/gia, ei)/ ti/ pou o(rw/|h brwto\n, e)di/dou toi=s boulimiw=si. sumpi/ptei te th=s boulimia/sews pa/qos, xio/nos ou)/shs, ponou=si kai\ kth/nesi kai\ a)nqrw/pois, ei)/te tou= qermou= dia\ peri/yucin kai\ pu/knwsin, o(/tan e)nto\s a(/pan kaqeirxqh=|, th\n trofh\n a)qro/ws a)nali/skontos, ei)/te drimei=a kai\ lepth\ th=s xio/nos diaduome/nhs i)ou=sa pnoh\ te/mnei to\ sw=ma kai\ diafqei/rei to\ qermo\n e)/cw au)=qis diadido/menon.

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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