And the word ὀξύπεινος is used by Diphilus for hungry—

[[77]] I'm glad when those who set them up as wise,
Are naked seen and hungry.

And Antiphanes says—

A.At all events he's one complaint,
For he is hungry ever.
B.The keen Thessalian race you paint,
Who can be sated never.

And Eubulus says—

Then Zethus was advised to seek the plain,
The holy plain of Thebes; for there men sell
The cheapest loaves and cakes.
Again advice came to the great Amphion,
The sweet musician, pointing out to him
The famous Athens for his resting-place.
Whose sons at hunger ne'er repine, but feed
On air and sweetest hopes.

28. The word μονοσιτῶν, eating once a day, occurs too in Alexis—

When you meet with a man who takes only one meal,
Or a poet who music pretends not to feel;
The man half his life, the bard half his art, loses;
And sound reason to call either living refuses.

And Plato says, "he not only was not content with one meal a-day, but sometimes he even dined twice the same day."

We know that men used to call sweetmeats νωγαλεύματα. Araros says in the Campylion—