The corpus record

καταφθίνω

kataphthino

waste away, decay

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Where it lives

Persians 2 · 3.93/10k
Philoctetes 2 · 2.27/10k
Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
Electra 1 · 1.15/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
Odyssey 5 · 0.58/10k
Republic 2 · 0.23/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

καταφθίνω · kataphthinō — LSJ

waste away, decay

waste away, decay, Pi. I. 8(7).51, Hdt. 2.123; κ. νόσῳ, γήρᾳ, S. Ph. 266, E. Alc. 622: in later Att. Prose, Thphr. HP 9.16.5: aor. part. καταφθινήσας Plu. Cons.Apoll. 2.117c: pf. part. κατεφθινηκώς ib. QConv. 621f, Arr. Epict. 4.11.25: καταφθῑνουσι trans. is f.l. in Theoc. 25.122.

In the wild

καταφθίσας · kataphthisas Aeschylus, Eumenides 727–728
κατέφθιτο · katephthito Aeschylus, Persians 318–319
κατέφθιτο · katephthito Aeschylus, Persians 377–379
καταφθιμένου · kataphthimenou Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.2 (DIORISIS sentence 7453)
καταφθιμένου · kataphthimenou Euripides, Electra 3 (DIORISIS sentence 72)
καταφθίνει · kataphthinei Euripides, Trojan Women (DIORISIS sentence 656)

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Where it came from

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