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τρίβος [ι^], ἡ, but ὁ in E.Or.1251,1258, El.103, Plu.Arat.22: (τρίβω):—
A.worn or beaten track, ἐν τρίβῳ μάλιστα οἰκημένοι in the path (of the war), Hdt.8.140. β᾽ (so “ἐν τ. τοῦ πολέμου κείμενος” D.H.6.34, 11.54); “τ. ἁμαξήρης” E.Or.1251; “λεπτὴν τ. ἐξανύσαντες” Theoc. 25.156; ἡ τ. τῆς ἀτραποῦ the track of the path, D.S.17.49; διασχισθέντες [τῆς ὁδοῦ] τρίβῳ τινί by following a track, X.Cyr.4.5.13.
2. metaph., path, h.Merc.448; “ποίην τις βιότοιο τάμοι τρίβον;” AP9.359 (Posidipp.); “βιότου τ. ὁδεύειν” Anacreont.38.2; “ποίην τις πρὸς ἔρωτας ἴοι τρίβον;” AP5.301.1 (Agath.); “τῆς αἰτίας ἴχνος καὶ τ.” track, Plu.2.68of: pl., “τρίβοι ἐρώτων” A.Supp.1042 (lyr.).
II. rubbing, attrition, Id.Ag.391 (lyr.); τ. κρηπῖδος the rubbing of a shoe, Aret.SD2.12.
2. socket, friction-joint, “ἡ κεφαλὴ τοῦ βραχίονος . . τρίβον ἑωυτῇ πεποιημένη” Hp.Art.7, cf. 55; “τὸ ἔθος τρίβον ποιεῖ” Id.Mochl.41; area of friction or pressure of a bandage, Id.Off.8.
3. delay, A.Ag.197 (lyr.).
III. bodily exercise, Nic. Al.592 (pl.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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