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τρυ^φ-ή , ἡ, (θρύπτω)
A.softness, delicacy, daintiness, E.Fr.892.4, Pl.Lg.900e, etc.; στολίδος κροκόεσσαν . . τρυφάν (sic leg. pro στολίδα . . τρυφᾶς) E.Ph.1491 (lyr.): pl., luxuries, daintinesses, “τ. Τρωϊκαί” Id.Or.1113; τρυφὰς τοιάσδε [τρυφᾶν] Id.Ba.970; “αἱ ἄγαν τ.” Id.Fr.54.2; “εἰς πλούτους ἀποβλέψαι καὶ τ.” Pl.Alc.1.122c, cf. Lg.637e.
II. luxuriousness, wantonness, “τῶν γυναικῶν ἡ τ.” Ar.Lys.387; τ. καὶ ἀκολασία, τ. καὶ μαλθακία, Pl.Grg.492c, R.590b; “ἡ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ τ.” 2 Ep.Pet.2.13; “ὑπερτεταμένη τ.” Sor.2.54: personified, “Τρυφῆς πρόσωπον” Ar.Ec.973 (lyr.), cf. Alex.230.3.
III. daintiness, fastidiousness, “ὑπὸ τρυφῆς” Ar.Pl.818; “ὕβρις ταῦτ᾽ ἐστὶ καὶ πολλὴ τ.” Id.Ra.21, cf. Pl. Grg.525a, Arist.Pol.1295b17.
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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