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ἐπιτρίβω [τρι_], fut.
A.“-ψω” Hsch.: pf. “-τετρι^φα” Ar.Lys.952 : aor. 2 Pass. ἐπετρίβην [ι^] Id.Th.557, al.: fut. Med. in pass. sense, Luc.Icar. 33 (v.l. ἐπιτετρίψονται, as in Ar.Pax246) : —rub on the surface, crush, κἄπνιγε κἀπέτριβεν v.l. in Id.Nu.1376, cf. Ra.571:—Pass., “τυπτόμενον ἐπιτριβῆναι” Id.Nu.1408 ; ἐπιτριβόμενος τὸν ὦμον galled by the weight, Id.Ra.88.
2. metaph., afflict, destroy, “[ἥλιος] καίων ἐ. τούς τε ἀνθρώπους καὶ τὴν χώρην” Hdt.4.184 ; “γάμον ὅς μ᾽ ἐπέτριψεν” Ar.Nu. 438, cf. 243 ; “ταῦτά με ἐ. πόθῳ” Id.Lys.888 ; “ὀδύναις τινὰ ἐ.” X.Mem.1.3.12 ; “ἐ. τοὺς ἀπόρους” D.18.104 ; opp. σῴζειν, Men.Epit.550 ; of an actor, murder a part, D.18.180 ; “ἐ. Μένανδρον” Plu.2.531b:—Pass., to be utterly destroyed or undone, Sol.33.7, Ar.Ach.1022, Pax246,369 ; “ἐπιτριβείης” damn you ! Id.Av.1530, Th.557 ; “ἐπιτριβείην εἴ τι ἐψευσάμην” Luc.DMeretr.2.3 ; to be worried, Phld.Ir.p.27 W ; to be burdened, POxy.1252v32 (iii A.D.), etc.
3. c. dat., waste time over, “στοχαστικοῖς” Gal.15.172.
II. Med., rub paint on one's cheeks, of women, Phryn.PSp.71 B.(cod.), cf. Sch.Ar.Th.396（Act.).
III. inflame by friction, ἐ. τὴν νόσον aggravate it, App.BC5.59, cf. Gal.19.680 ; irritate, excite, “τινά” Plb.4.84.8 ; “τινὰ ἐς πόλεμον” App.Mac.11.7, cf. PSI5.452.15 (iv A.D.).
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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