ANDROPHAGI

ANDROPH'AGI, [Gr. man, and to eat.]Man-eaters; but the word is little used, being superseded by anthropophagi, which see. Herodotus mentions people of this character.

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‖An‐droph″a‐gi (ăn‐drŏf″ȧ‐jĭ), n. pl. [[NL., fr. Gr. ανδροφἄγοσ; ανἤρ, ανδρὄσ, man + φαγει̑ν to eat.]] Cannibals; man-eaters; anthropophagi.