διατρίβω · diatribō — LSJ
rub hard, wear away, consume, to fritter away
The corpus record
διατρίβω
diatribo
rub hard, wear away, consume, to fritter away
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Distribution
- Letter 6 3 · 33.78/10k
- Against the Sophists 2 · 15.09/10k
- On The Refusal Of A Pension 2 · 14.06/10k
- Letter 4 1 · 12.15/10k
- Busiris 3 · 10.92/10k
- Helen 4 · 10.73/10k
- Nicocles or the Cyprians 4 · 10.71/10k
- Against Simon 2 · 9.18/10k
- Against Lochites 1 · 8.93/10k
- Theages 3 · 8.64/10k
- Antidosis 15 · 8.52/10k
- Archidamus 5 · 8.16/10k
Densest 12 of 91 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
Senses
Attestations
- διατρίβειν · diatribein Iliad 4.42
- διατρίψας · diatripsas Iliad 11.847
- διατρίβειν · diatribein Iliad 19.150
- διατρίβῃσιν · diatribēisin Odyssey 2.204
- διατρίβουσιν · diatribousin Odyssey 2.265
- διατρίβωμεν · diatribōmen Odyssey 2.404
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