Definition of "grasping"

Just how, Agamemnon, great field marshal . . most grasping man alive, how can the generous Argives give you prizes now? I know of no troves of treasure, piled, lying idle, anywhere.

1990, Robert Fagles, transl., The Iliad

These are my connections, my attachments. Maybe all I really am is the sum of all these connections, these fearful longings and graspings.

2009, Jed McKenna, Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment