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ἐν-τρίβω [ι_],
A.rub in, esp. unguents or cosmetics, “ψιμύθιον τῷ προσώπῳ” Luc. Hist.Conscr.8; οἴνῳ λίθον ἐ. crumble a stone into wine, Orph.L. 344.
2. metaph., ἐ. κόνδυλόν τινι give him a drubbing, Plu.Alc.8, Luc.Prom.10:—Med., ἐντρίβεσθαί τινι πληγάς cause them to be given him, D.H.7.45; “ἐ. κακόν τινι” Luc.DDeor.20.2.
II. c. acc. pers., rub one with cosmetics, “ὑποχρίουσι καὶ ἐντρίβουσιν αὐτούς” X.Cyr.8.8.20:—Med., “ἐ. τὰ πρόσωπα” Ath.12.523a:—Pass., have cosmetics rubbed in, to be anointed, painted, Ar.Lys.149, Ec.732, X.Cyr.8.1.41; “ἐντετριμμένη ψιμυθίῳ” Id.Oec.10.2; “ἀλφίτοισιν” Hermipp.26: also c. acc. rei, “ἐντετρ. χρῶμα” Luc.DDeor.20.10: metaph., “παιδέρωτ᾽ ἐ.” Alex.98.18.
III. rub away, wear by rubbing, Ar.Ra.1070.
IV. Pass., to be familiar with, “γυναικῶν ἐντριβεῖσα παθήμασιν” Procop.Gaz. p.163B., cf. Cod.Just.10.27.3Intr.
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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