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πολυ-φθόρος , ον,
A.destroying many, fraught with death or ruin, ἁμέραι, ὄμβρος, Pi.N.8.31, I.5(4).49; of persons, “π. ἐν δαΐ” A.Th.925 (lyr.).
2. v. πολυφθονερός.
II. proparox. πολύφθορος, ον, Pass., utterly destroyed or ruined, Οἰχαλία, δῶμα, S.Tr.477, El.10.
2. (“φθείρω” 11.4) involving or enduring many wanderings, π. τύχαι, πλάνη, A.Pr.633,820; of merchants, S.Fr.555.5.
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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