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προσδια-τρίβω [ι_],
A.have intercourse with, “οἱ προσδιατρίβοντές σοι” Pl.Tht.168a.
2. ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ π. τινὰ χρόνον spend some time longer in A., PCair.Zen. 217.2 (iii B.C.), cf. Lib.Or.31.13.
3. c. dat. rei, occupy oneself with, “συλλαβαῖς καὶ γράμμασιν” Posidipp.28.4; spend further time on, “τοῖς Ξενοφῶντος οἰκονομικοῖς” Phld.Oec.p.25 J.; “ἀκροάμασι” Plu.2.725f; “τῷ λόγῳ” Aristid.1.135 J.
4. c. dat., abide by, “τοῖς κυήμασι” Plu.2.981f; πυρὸς ὄγκῳ -τρίβοντος ib.934b.
II. abs., stay yet longer, Men.481.13.
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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