apocarteresis

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ăpŏcartĕrēsis, is, f., = ἀποκαρτέρησις,

a voluntary starvation , Tert. Apol. 46 (in Quint. 8, 5, 23, written as Greek, Halm; cf. Cic. Tusc. 1, 34, 84).