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GALACTOPHAGI

Volume 10 · 36 words · 1842 Edition

and Galactophore, in Antiquity, persons who lived wholly on milk, without corn or the use of any other food. The words are compounded of γάλα, γάλαξος, milk; φάγειν, to eat; and επίκρατος, from επίκρατος, I drink.