κατα-τρίβω [ῑ],
future -ψω [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cyr.” 8.4.36 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect - [[ τέτρῐφα Isocrates Orator [{5-6th c.BC}] ] Refs 6th c.BC+] (see. below):—passive, future -[[ τρῐβήσομαι Xenophon Historicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.60 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]:— rub down or away: hence,
__1 of clothes, wear out, [[ ἀμφὶ πλευρῇσι δοράς 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 55, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “fragment” 345, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phd.” 87c, 4th c.AD: Metrodorus Epigrammaticus “fragment” 55: hence _metaphorically_, πολλὰ σώματα κατατρίψασα ἡ ψυχή Plato Philosophus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Phaedo” 91d, compare 87d; οἱ τὰ βήματα κατατετριφότες] Refs 6th c.BC+], i.e. constant frequenters of the tribune, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator “Ep.” 8.7; ὁ σταλαγμὸς κ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 253b15 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: metaphorically, κ. τὸ τῆς ἀρετῆς ὄνομα to have it always on one's tongue, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Par.” 43. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__1.b press downwards, -[[ ομένης πάτῳ τῆς ῥίζης Theophrastus Philosophus [{4-3rd c.BC}] “Historia Plantarum” 6.6.10 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+].
__1.c rub or roll thread, [[ περὶ γούνατι νῆμα χειρί 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 24.77 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+].
__2 of persons, wear out, exhaust, [[ αὐτοὺς περὶ ἑαυτοὺς τοὺς Ἕλληνας κ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.46 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, to be quite worn out, with participle, [[ κατατετρίμμεθα πλανώμενοι Aristophanes Comicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Pax” 355, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Mem.” 1.2.37; - τριβήσοιντο ὑπὸ πολέμου [prev\. author] “HG” 5.4.60; ἐν τοῖς στρατοπέδοις Isocrates Orator [{5-6th c.BC}] 15.115; περὶ τὸν πόλεμον Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus [{1-2nd c.AD}] “Fabius Maximus” 19 ] Refs 6th c.BC+].