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τρίβων

tribon1 · ὁ

worn garment, threadbare cloak

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Where it lives

Against Conon 1 · 3.15/10k
Acharnians 2 · 2.82/10k
Wasps 2 · 2.06/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 15 · 1.4/10k
Discourses 8 · 1.08/10k
Symposium 1 · 0.57/10k
Protagoras 1 · 0.56/10k

What it meant

τρίβων · tribōn — LSJ

worn garment, threadbare cloak

worn garment, threadbare cloak, E. Fr. 282.12, Ar. Ach. 184, 343 (troch.), al., PCair.Zen. 92.19, 519.11 (iii B. C.), Sammelb. 7451.149 (iii B. C.): worn by the Spartans, Λακωνίζειν καὶ τρίβωνας ἔχειν D. 54.34, cf. Duris 14J.; by Philosophers, as Socrates, Pl. Smp. 219b, Prt. 335d; esp. by the Cynics, Crates Theb. 16, Arr. Epict. 3.1.24, etc.; and the Stoics, Zeno Stoic. 1.63; πήρα καὶ τ. Plu. Alex. fort. 2.332a, cf. Luc. Peregr. 15, D.L. 6.13; οἱ τὴν χλαῖναν ἐν τῷ θέρει κατατρίψαντες ἐν τῷ τ. τ

In the wild

τρίβωσιν · tribōsin Aristophanes, Acharnians 1 (DIORISIS sentence 266)
τρίβωνας · tribōnas Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 149)
τρίβωνʼ · tribōnʼ Aristophanes, Wasps (DIORISIS sentence 810)
τρίβωνος · tribōnos Aristophanes, Wasps (DIORISIS sentence 951)
τρίβωνας · tribōnas Demosthenes, Against Conon Proof.34 (DIORISIS sentence 101)
τρίβωνος · tribōnos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.5 (DIORISIS sentence 1320)

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