2007-11-24 14:03:26 · 9 answers · asked by sarah 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
A lotus eater is a daydreamer, or forgetful person.
- a person who leads a life of dreamy, indolent ease, indifferent to the busy world; daydreamer.
- a member of a people whom Odysseus found existing in a state of languorous forgetfulness induced by their eating of the fruit of the legendary lotus (Classical Mythology).
2007-11-24 14:15:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The lotus is a plant and anyone or animal that eats the plant would be termed a lotus eater.
2007-11-24 22:07:27 · answer #2 · answered by rnwallace07 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Greek mythology, the Lotophagi (Greek ÎÏÏοÏάγοι, lotus-eaters) were a race of people from an island near North Africa dominated by "lotus" plants. The lotus fruits and flowers were the primary food of the island and were narcotic, causing the people to sleep in peaceful apathy.
2007-11-24 22:06:53 · answer #3 · answered by tattoo_rocker 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Straight from the Merriam-Webster dictionary:
1 : any of a people in Homer's Odyssey subsisting on the lotus and living in the dreamy indolence it induces 2 : an indolent person
2007-11-24 22:21:38 · answer #4 · answered by cafedweller 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in the odyssey, the lotus-eaters were members of odysseus' crew who fell to the temptation of an addictive plant that made them not want to go home.
commonly used nowadays, i'd say it referred to someone with little self-control, or maybe someone who is lazy.
2007-11-24 22:07:20 · answer #5 · answered by misslindalove 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
something that eats a lotus
2007-11-24 22:05:46 · answer #6 · answered by Bethenia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i studies this in science i think u meant locust eater its a bug that eats locusts.
2007-11-24 22:06:04 · answer #7 · answered by cartucho135 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
animal that eats sports cars??
2007-11-24 22:07:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
google it..duhh
2007-11-24 22:05:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋