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φθορ-ά , Ion. φθορή , ἡ, (φθείρω)
A.destruction, ruin, Hdt.2.161, 7.18, Hp.Vict.1.5, A.Ag.406 (lyr.), etc.; of persons, death, esp. by some general visitation, as pestilence, Th.2.47, Pl.Lg.677a (pl.), GDI 5104c11 (Crete, pl.); “ἀνδροθνῆτας Ἰλίου φθοράς” A.Ag.814.
b. of animals, loss by death, PStrassb.24.26,31 (ii A. D.).
2. Philos., passing out of existence, ceasing to be, “γενομένῳ παντὶ φ. ἐστι” Pl.R. 546a; “περὶ γενέσεως καὶ φθορᾶς” Id.Phd.95e, title of work by Arist., cf. Pl.Phlb.55a, Arist.Ph.229b13, Gal.6.6; ἡ φ. μεταβολή τίς ἐστι “τῶν φθειρομένων εἰς τοὐναντίον ἑκάστῳ” Plu.2.948f: pl., Pl.Phd.96b, R.490e, al.: with dat. (instrumental), “ἡ μεγίστηφθορὰ ὕδασιν” Id.Ti.23c, cf. 22d.
3. deterioration, εἰς καρπογονίαν in respect of . . Thphr.CP 5.8.2.
b. loss by deterioration, “ἐκφορίου . . ἀνυπολόγου πάο ης φθορᾶς” PTeb.105.3,18 (ii B. C.); damage, “ἐκτεῖσαι τὴν γεγονυῖαν ὑπ᾽ αὐτῶν τοῦ χόρτου . . φ.” BGU1824.29 (i B. C.); misspelt φθαρά ib.1866.3 (i B. C.).
4. seduction, ἐλευθέρων Lexap. Aeschin.1.12; παρθένων, γυναικῶν, Plu.2.712c (pl.), Vett.Val.2.37 (pl.), cf. Parth.35.3, D.H.2.25; rape, Str.6.1.6.
5. abortion or miscarriage, IG22.1365.22, 1366.7, Sor.1.56, Gal.17(1).800; “τοῦ ἐμβρύου” Sor.1.59.
6. gradation of colours in painting, Plu.2.346a; τὰς μίξεις τῶν χρωμάτων οἱ ζωγράφοι φθορὰς ὀνομάζουσι ib.725c, cf. 393c.
7. = φθόη, Hp.Aph.7.80.
8. storm-tossings or shipwrecks, “τί τοι λέγοιμ᾽ ἂν τὰς ἐν Αἰγαίῳ φθοράς;” E.Hel.766; cf. “φθείρω” 11.4.
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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    • Aeschines, Against Timarchus, 12
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 406
    • Euripides, Helen, 766
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.161
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.18
    • Plato, Laws, 677a
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    • Plato, Timaeus, 23c
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    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.47
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 814
    • Strabo, Geography, 6.1.6
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 2.25
    • Parthenius, Narrationes Amatoriae, 35.3
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