1) Lotus-eaters 
• (n. pl.) A people visited by Ulysses in his wanderings. They subsisted on the lotus. See Lotus (b), and Lotus-eater.
Lo·toph'a·gi noun plural [ Latin , from Greek ...; ... the lotus + ... to eat.] (Class. Myth.) A people visited by Ulysses in his wanderings. They subsisted on the lotus. See Lotus (b) , and Lotus- eater . 
In Greek legends, the Lotophagi or lotus-eaters were a people on the north coast of Africa who lived on the fruit of the lotus-tree. According to Homer they received Ulysses and his followers hospitably, but the sweetness of the fruit induced such a feeling of happy languor that they forgot their native land and ceased to desire to return to it, th...
lotus-eaters.