lotus-eater


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lo·tus-eat·er

(lō′təs-ē′tər)
n.
1. Lotus-eater or Lotus Eater Greek Mythology One of a people described in the Odyssey who lived in a drugged, indolent state from feeding on the lotus.
2. A lazy person devoted to pleasure and luxury.

lotus-eater

n
(Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth one of a people encountered by Odysseus in North Africa who lived in indolent forgetfulness, drugged by the fruit of the legendary lotus

lo′tus-eat`er



n.
1. a member of a people in Homer's Odyssey who, from eating the fruit of the legendary lotus, lived in a state of languorous forgetfulness.
2. a person who leads a life of indolent ease.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.lotus-eater - someone indifferent to the busy world; "in the Odyssey Homer tells of lotus-eaters who live in dreamy indolence"
stargazer
daydreamer, woolgatherer - someone who indulges in idle or absentminded daydreaming
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lotus-eater

n → Lotophage m, → Lotosesser(in) m(f); (fig) → Müßiggänger(in) m(f)
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I was driven thence by foul winds for a space of nine days upon the sea, but on the tenth day we reached the land of the Lotus-eaters, who live on a food that comes from a kind of flower.
77} with the Lotus-eaters without thinking further of their return; nevertheless, though they wept bitterly I forced them back to the ships and made them fast under the benches.
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The Nothingness held him and would not yield him up, although, could Michael have journeyed a ten-days' steamer-journey into the South Pacific to the Marquesas, Steward he would have found, and, along with him, Kwaque and the Ancient Mariner, all three living like lotus-eaters on the beach-paradise of Taiohae.
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And so the young man returns into the country of the lotus-eaters, and takes up his dwelling there in the face of all men; and if any help be sent by his friends to the oligarchical part of him, the aforesaid vain conceits shut the gate of the king's fastness; and they will neither allow the embassy itself to enter, private if private advisers offer the fatherly counsel of the aged will they listen to them or receive them.
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What is more, the success temporarily turned me from slothful Lotus-Eater (see Alfred Lord Tennyson: 'That afternoon they came unto a land, a land in which it seemed always afternoon') to hyperactive humming-bird.
'Long live elderly people, say I. Not too often does the combined age of the proprietors of the Exacta come in at 163' FROM THE VAULTS VINTAGE RACING POST WRITING
sleeve; or a dumbfounded skeptic or a vixen or a lotus-eater or a
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