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διαφθορ-ά , Ion. διαφθορ-ρή , ἡ, (διαφθείρω)
A.destruction, ruin, “ἐπὶ -φθορᾷ τῆς πόλεως” Th.8.86; “ἀπέστειλε ἐπὶ διαφθορῇ” Hdt.4.164; “μέχρι διαφθορᾶς” Pl.Mx.242d: pl., S.OT573, etc.
2. destruction, blight, of things, “ὀμμάτων διαφθοραί” Id.OC552; “διαφθορὰ μορφῆς” A.Pr.643.
3. in moral sense, corruption, seduction, “νέων” X.Ap.19; “κριτῶν” Arist. Rh.1372a34 (pl.).
4. miscarriage, abortion, Hp.Mul.1.3, Coac. 505, Melanges Holleaux 265 (ii/i B. C.).
5. stomachic disorder, Aret.CA1.5.
II. concrete, ἰχθύσιν δ. a prey for fishes, of a corpse, S.Aj.1297; “πολεμίοις ὕβρισμα καὶ δ.” E.HF459.
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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