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ἐντριβής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐντριβής ἐντριβές

Structure: ἐντριβη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)ntri/bw

Sense

  1. proved by rubbing, versed in

Examples

  • ἀμήχανον δὲ παντὸσ ἀνδρὸσ ἐκμαθεῖν ψυχήν τε καὶ φρόνημα καὶ γνώμην, πρὶν ἂν ἀρχαῖσ τε καὶ νόμοισιν ἐντριβὴσ φανῇ. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode4)
  • Ιἀμβεῖα Σοφοκλέουσ ἐξ Ἀντιγόνησἀμήχανον δὲ παντὸσ ἀνδρὸσ ἐκμαθεῖνψυχήν τε καὶ φρόνημα καὶ γνώμην, πρὶν ἂνἀρχαῖσ τε καὶ νόμοισιν ἐντριβὴσ φανῇ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 324:4)
  • ἐλθὼν δὲ ἐπὶ τὰ Ἄλπεια ὄρη, καὶ μηδεμίαν μήτε δίοδον μήτε ἄνοδον εὑρών ἁ̓πόκρημνα γάρ ἐστιν ἰσχυρῶσ̓, ἐπέβαινε κἀκείνοισ ὑπὸ τόλμησ, κακοπαθῶν χιονοσ τε πολλῆσ οὔσησ καὶ κρύουσ, τὴν μὲν ὕλην τέμνων τε καὶ κατακαίων, τὴν δὲ τέφραν σβεννὺσ ὕδατι καὶ ὄξει, καὶ τὴν πέτραν ἐκ τοῦδε ψαφαρὰν γιγνομένην σφύραισ σιδηραῖσ θραύων, καὶ ὁδὸν ποιῶν ἣ καὶ νῦν ἐστιν ἐπὶ τῶν ὀρῶν ἐντριβὴσ καὶ καλεῖται δίοδοσ Ἀννίβου. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 1 4:4)
  • σχεδὸν ἐννοῶ ἀκούων καὶ αὐτὸσ ταῦτα ἃ λέγεισ, ἐπεὶ ἐντριβήσ γε οὐδαμῶσ γέγονα τῇ τοιαύτῃ τέχνῃ. (Plato, Laws, book 6 127:1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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