avidus

And you must keep in mind this agriculturally laborious character of Hephæstus, even when he is most distinctly the god of serviceable fire; thus Horace's perfect epithet for him, "avidus," expresses at once the devouring eagerness of fire, and the zeal of progressive labor, for Horace gives it to him when he is fighting against the giants.

Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 John Ruskin 1859

And you must keep in mind this agriculturally laborious character of Hephæstus, even when he is most distinctly the god of serviceable fire; thus Horace's perfect epithet for him "avidus" expresses at once the devouring eagerness of fire, and the zeal of progressive labour, for Horace gives it to him when he is fighting against the giants.

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859

Quis tam avidus librorum helluo, who can read them?

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Nostrae salutis avidus continenter aures vellicat, ac calamitate subinde nos exercet.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

At illum jam antea consulatus ingens cupido exagitabat, ad quem capiundum praeter vetustatem familiae alia omnia abunde erant, [335] industria, probitas militiae magna scientia, animus belli [336] ingens, domi modicus, libidinis et divitiarum victor, tantummodo gloriae avidus.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

It is to be hoped, however, that they may find favour in the eyes of the English reader -- always so "novitatis avidus," -- if only on the score of the singularity of the versification: --

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various

Helv. _ 20, 1 (written in exile), 'Animus omnis occupationis expers operibus suis vacat et modo se levioribus studiis oblectat, modo ad considerandam suam universique naturam veri avidus insurgit: terras primum situmque earum quaerit.'

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

_Nunt_. et ipse miror vixque iam facto malo potuisse fieri credo; quis cladis modus? avidus per omnem regiae partem furit ut iussus ignis: iam domus tota occidit, urbi timetur.

Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

The "vixit avidus" is quite worthy of Thackeray; but had he tried his hand at such mode of expression he would have done more of it.

Thackeray Anthony Trollope 1848

By the by, the circumstances of the case should make the Committee less 'avidus glorias,' for all praise of them would look plaguy suspicious.

Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815