τροφ-ή, ἡ,
(τρέφω) nourishment, food, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.48, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 32, 953, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.5, NT.Matt.3.4, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.35, 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de vita Pythagorica” 3.16, etc.; ἡ καθ᾽ ἡμέραν ἀναγκαία τ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.2 ] NT+5th c.BC+]; the means of maintaining an army, provisions, forage, τροφὴν παρέχειν [[ [prev. author] 8.57, compare 6.93: _plural_, “OGI” 56.70 (Canopus, 3rd c.BC), etc. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__2 βίου τροφαί way of life, livelihood, living, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 338, 446 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τροφή alone, δουλίαν ἕξειν τροφήν [[ [prev. author] “Aj.” 499, compare “OC” 362; φεῦ τῆς ἀνύμφου.. σῆς τροφῆς [prev. author] “El.” 1183; τὰς ἐκ γῆς τ. ηὕρετο 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 322a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: then, simply, mode of life, δίκην τίνουσαι τῆς προτέρας τ. [[ [prev. author] “Phd.” 81d, compare 84b; βώμιοι τ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 52. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 that which provides or procures sustenance, as the bow of Philoctetes, χερὶ πάλλων τὰν ἐμὰν μελέου τροφάν [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1126 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 a meal, τροφαῖς τέτταρσιν ἐχρῶντο Philem.[[“Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum”] Refs] cited in [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 1.11d. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II nurture, rearing, παιδία.. τρέφειν.. τροφήν τινα τοιήνδε [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.2, compare 3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; χάριν τροφᾶς ἀμείβων variant in [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 729 (Lyric poetry); νέας τροφῆς στερηθείς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 511; μητρὸς τ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1377: frequently in _plural_, ἐν τροφαῖσιν] Refs 5th c.BC+] while in the nursery, opposed to ἐφηβήσας, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 665; ἠνυτόμαν τροφαῖς [prev. author] “Ag.” 1159 (Lyric poetry); ὦ δυσάθλιαι τ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 330; αἱ ἐμαὶ τ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 1187; τ. δημόσιαι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1361a36 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκτίνων τροφάς, much like{τροφεῖα}, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 548; οἷς ὀδύνας ἀντὶ τροφῶν ἔλιπον “IG” 12(5).973 (from Tenos). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]