Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • The lotus-eaters; in Gr. legend, especially as given in the Odyssey, the name of a people who ate the fruit of a plant called the lotus, conjecturally identified with various plants which have borne that name.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Class. Myth.) A people visited by Ulysses in his wanderings. They subsisted on the lotus. See lotus (b), and lotus-eater.

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Examples

  • Page 108 heart as inviting and bewitching as the magnificent panorama upon which enraptured lotophagi gazed from the ancient acropolis of Cyrene.

    St. Elmo. A Novel. Augusta Jane 1867

  • Edna had endeavored to realize and remember what her Bible first taught her, and what moralists of all creeds, climes and ages, had reiterated -- that human life was at best but "vanity and vexation of spirit," that "man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward"; yet as she stood on the line, narrow and thin as Al-Sirat, that divides girlhood and womanhood, all seemed to her fresh, pure heart as inviting and bewitching as the magnificent panorama upon which enraptured lotophagi gazed from the ancient acropolis of Cyrene.

    St. Elmo 1872

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