Also lotos-. a. One of the LOTOPHAGI. b. transf. One who gives himself up to dreamy and luxurious ease.
1832. Tennyson (title), The Lotos-eaters.
1838. Thirlwall, Greece, II. xii. 95. The fable of the Lotus-eaters.
1847. W. E. Forster, 27 Aug., in T. W. Reid, Life (1888), I. vii. 209. He [Carlyle] is busy sleeping, and declares himself lazy as a lotos-eater.
1856. R. A. Vaughan, Mystics (1860), I. 22. So those spiritual Lotos-eaters will only … hearken what the inner spirit sings, There is no joy but calm.
1893. Times, 30 Dec., 9/3. A summer like that of 1893 may be all very well for the lotus-eater, but is a calamity to people who have to get their living out of English land.
Similarly Lotus-eating vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1861. Wilson & Geikie, Mem. E. Forbes, vi. 165. Day-dreaming and such Lotus-eating idleness as befits the intellectual Castle of Indolence.
1883. F. M. Crawford, Mr. Isaacs, 5. The attractive waters of lotus-eating Saratoga.
