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^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “fatīgō, -āre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 204–205
^ Frederick M. Wheelock, Latin: An Introductory Course Based on Ancient Authors, 3rd ed. (Barnes & Noble, 1963), p. 267; cf. Phaedrus, Fābulae, 4.3.
“fames”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“fames”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
fames in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
to be tormented by hunger, to be starving: fame laborare, premi
to endure the pangs of hunger: famem tolerare, sustentare
to die of starvation: fame confici, perire, interire
to be starved to death (as punishment): fame necari
to allay one's hunger, thirst: famem, sitim explere
to allay one's hunger, thirst: famem sitimque depellere cibo et potione
to starve a town into surrender: oppidum fame domare