διατρίβω [ρῑ],
perfect -τέτρῐφα[[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.57.3:] Refs 2nd c.BC+] —passive, aorist 2 διετρίβην [ῐ] (see. below):—rub hard, χερσὶ διατρίψας [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.847 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: more frequently, wear away, consume, πάντα διατρίβουσιν Ἁχαιοί [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.265; χρήματα 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 921; τὰ τῶν Πελοποννησίων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.87 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; εἰς αἰτίας ἀλόγους δ. τὸ θεῖον to fritter away Providence into unreasoning causes, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Nicias” 23:] Refs 1st c.AD+] — passive, κάκιστα διατριβῆναι perish utterly, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.120 (variant{ἐκ-}),compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.78. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II spend, of Time, θερείην [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.189; frequently χρόνον δ. 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 3.11; παρά τινι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.24, etc.; δ. τινὰς ἡμέρας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.5.49; ἓξ ἔτη 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.141 (later with _genitive_, ἐτῶν οὐκ ὀλίγων ἐν Ῥώμῃ δ. 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 3.10.2)] Refs 5th c.BC+]:— passive, ἐνιαυτὸς διετρίβη [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.125. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 absolutely (without χρόνον), waste time, οὐ μὴ διατρίψεις..; make no more delay, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 462 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δ. ἐν γυμνασίοις pass all one's time there, [[ [prev. author] “Nu.” 1002; ἐν ἄστει 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.14; ἐν ἀγρῷ 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 71.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αὐτοῦ, ἔνδον, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 311a; δ. μετ᾽ ἀλλήλων ] Refs 5th c.BC+]go on talking, [[ [prev. author] “Phd.” 59d, etc.] Refs]: hence, busy, employ oneself, ἐν ζητήσει [[ [prev. author] “Ap.” 29c; ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ [prev. author] “Tht.” 173c; ἐπί τινι [prev. author] “Euthd.” 305a, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.19, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.16; ἀμφί τι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 2.1; περί τι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 90c, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.4; πρὸς ἱππικῇ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 126c; πρὸς τοῖς ἔργοις 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1309a8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρὸς φιλοσοφίᾳ (probable reading for -ίαν) [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 540b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with participle, δ. μελετῶσαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.2.12. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]