πᾰλιν-τρῐβής · palin-tribēs — LSJ
rubbed again and again, obstinate, resisting all blows
rubbed again and again, of the ass, obstinate, resisting all blows, Semon. 7.43.
2 knavish, crafty
knavish, crafty, τὰ . . πανοῦργα καὶ π. S. Ph. 448.
The corpus record
πᾰλιν-τρῐβής
palintribes
rubbed again and again
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Where it lives
- Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- παλιντριβῆ · palintribē Sophocles, Philoctetes 446–450
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.