A.nourishment, food, Hdt.3.48, S.Ph.32,953, Th.1.5, Ev.Matt. 3.4, Gal.6.35, Iamb.VP3.16, etc.; “ἡ καθ᾽ ἡμέραν ἀναγκαία τ.” Th.1.2; the means of maintaining an army, provisions, forage, “τροφὴν παρέχειν” Id.8.57, cf. 6.93: pl., OGI56.70 (Canopus, iii B. C.), etc.
2. βίου τροφαί way of life, livelihood, living, S.OC338,446; τροφή alone, “δουλίαν ἕξειν τροφήν” Id.Aj.499, cf. OC362; “φεῦ τῆς ἀνύμφου . . σῆς τροφῆς” Id.El.1183; “τὰς ἐκ γῆς τ. ηὕρετο” Pl.Prt.322a: then, simply, mode of life, “δίκην τίνουσαι τῆς προτέρας τ.” Id.Phd.81d, cf. 84b; “βώμιοι τ.” E.Ion 52.
3. that which provides or procures sustenance, as the bow of Philoctetes, “χερὶ πάλλων τὰν ἐμὰν μελέου τροφάν” S.Ph.1126 (lyr.).
4. a meal, τροφαῖς τέτταρσιν ἐχρῶντο Philem.Gloss. ap. Ath. 1.11d.
II. nurture, rearing, “παιδία . . τρέφειν . . τροφήν τινα τοιήνδε” Hdt.2.2, cf. 3; χάριν τροφᾶς ἀμείβων v.l. in A.Ag.729 (lyr.); “νέας τροφῆς στερηθείς” S.Aj.511; “μητρὸς τ.” E.Ion 1377: freq. in pl., ἐν τροφαῖσιν while in the nursery, opp. ἐφηβήσας, A.Th.665; “ἠνυτόμαν τροφαῖς” Id.Ag.1159 (lyr.); “ὦ δυσάθλιαι τ.” S.OC330; “αἱ ἐμαὶ τ.” E.Tr.1187; “τ. δημόσιαι” Arist.Rh.1361a36; ἐκτίνων τροφάς, much like τροφεῖα, A.Th. 548; “οἷς ὀδύνας ἀντὶ τροφῶν ἔλιπον” IG12(5).973 (Tenos).
2. education, E.Hec.599 (pl.); “τ. τε καὶ παιδεία” Pl.Alc.1.122b, cf. Arist. EN1179b34, 1180a26, al.
