Lewis & Short

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1. lurco, āre, v. a., and lurcor, āri, v. dep. n. [perh. lura, to have a stomach of leather], to eat voraciously, to devour: lurcare est cum aviditate cibum sumere, Non. 10, 31: lardum, Pomp. ap. Non. 11, 6 (Com. Rel. v. 169 Rib.): ut lurcaretur lardum, Lucil. ib. 11, 2.

2. lurco (lurcho, Serv. ad Verg. A. 6, 4; Prob. p. 1455 P.), ōnis, m., a gormandizer, glutton.
Lit.: lurco, edax, furax, fugax, Plaut. Pers. 3, 3, 16: vivite lurcones, comedones, vivite ventres, Lucil. ap. Non. 11, 9: lastaurum et lurconem et nebulonem popinonemque appellans, Suet. Gram. 15: lurcones capacis gulae homines et bonorum suorum consumptores, Paul. ex Fest. p. 120.

3. Lurco, ōnis, m.,

  1. I. a Roman surname. Esp., M. Aufidius, who was the first to fatten peacocks for the table, Varr. R. R. 3, 6, 1; Plin. 10, 20, 23, § 45.
    So of M. Perpenna Lurco, Inscr. Grut. 237, 8.
    1. B. Transf., a voluptuary, debauchee, App. M. 8, p. 213, 6.
      Hence,
  2. II. Lurcōnĭānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Lurco, Lurconian: Apiciana et Lurconiana condimenta, Tert. Anim. 33.