See aviditas in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "[…] habeōque senectūtī magnam grātiam, quae mihi sermōnis aviditātem auxit, pōtiōnis et cibī sustulit.",
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"translation": "He is [eating] more than he can hold, and with insatiable gluttony he overstuffs his distended gut — in fact already beyond the regular business of a belly — so that he will be expelling it all with more effort than [when] he packed it in.",
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