τριβήν (triben)

τριβήν is an Ancient Greek form of τριβή, meaning “rubbing; rubbing down, wearing away, wasting”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 39 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Alcibiades 21.6: … μίᾳ γῇ καὶ στάσιν, ὃ ῥᾳδίως ἂν ἐξειργάσατο βουληθεὶς ὁ Ἀλκιβιάδης. καὶ γὰρ ἠθύμουν ἀπιόντος αὐτοῦ, καὶ πολλὴν τριβὴν προσεδόκων καὶ μῆκος ἀργὸν ἐν τῷ Νικίᾳ τὸν πόλεμον ἕξειν, καθάπερ μύωπος ἀφῃρημένου τῶν πράξεων. ὁ γὰρ Λάμαχο …

Aristophanes, Birds 156b: οὐκ ἄχαρις ἐς τὴν τριβήν·

Hippocrates, Praeceptiones 13: … ονος σύνεσις ἐν τούτοις διεσπασμένη. τούτων οὖν διʼ ἀνάγκην ἀσυνέτων ἐόντων, παρακελεύομαι χρησίμην εἶναι τὴν τρίβην, μεθυστέρησιν δογμάτων ἱστορίης. τίς γὰρ ἐπιθυμεῖ δογμάτων μὲν πολυσχιδίην ἀτρεκέως ἐθέλων ἱστορεῖν, μετὰ δὲ …

All forms of τριβή (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.