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|Definition=ἡ, ([[τρέφω]])<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[nourishment]], [[food]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]3.48, S.''Ph.''32,953, Th.1.5, ''Ev.Matt.'' 3.4, Gal.6.35, Iamb.''VP''3.16, etc.; ἡ καθ' ἡμέραν ἀναγκαία τροφή Th.1.2; the [[means]] of [[maintain]]ing an [[army]], [[provisions]], [[forage]], τροφὴν [[παρέχειν]] Id.8.57, cf. 6.93: pl., ''OGI''56.70 (Canopus, iii B. C.), etc.<br><span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">βίου τροφαί</b> [[way]] of [[life]], [[livelihood]], [[living]], [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Coloneus|OC]]''338,446; [[τροφή]] alone, δουλίαν [[ἕξειν]] τροφήν Id.''Aj.''499, cf. ''OC''362; φεῦ τῆς ἀνύμφου . . σῆς τροφῆς Id.''El.''1183; τὰς ἐκ γῆς τ. ηὕρετο Pl.''Prt.''322a: then, simply, [[mode of life]], δίκην τίνουσαι τῆς προτέρας τ. Id.''Phd.''81d, cf. 84b; βώμιοι τ. [[Euripides|E.]]''[[Ion]]''52.<br><span class="bld">3</span> that which [[provide]]s or that which [[procure]]s [[sustenance]], as the [[bow]] of [[Philoctetes]], χερὶ πάλλων τὰν ἐμὰν μελέου τροφάν S.''Ph.''1126 (lyr.).<br><span class="bld">4</span> a [[meal]], <b class="b3">τροφαῖς τέτταρσιν ἐχρῶντο</b> Philem.Gloss. ap. Ath. 1.11d.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[nurture]], [[rearing]], [[παιδία]] . . [[τρέφειν]] . . τροφήν τινα τοιήνδε [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]2.2, cf. 3; <b class="b3">χάριν τροφᾶς ἀμείβων</b> [[varia lectio|v.l.]] in [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[Agamemnon|Ag.]]''729 (lyr.); νέας τροφῆς στερηθείς [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''511; μητρὸς τ. [[Euripides|E.]]''[[Ion]]''1377: freq. in plural, <b class="b3">ἐν τροφαῖσιν</b> while in the [[nursery]], opp. [[ἐφηβήσας]], A.''Th.''665; ἠνυτόμαν τροφαῖς Id.''Ag.''1159 (lyr.); ὦ δυσάθλιαι τ. [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Coloneus|OC]]''330; αἱ ἐμαὶ τ. E.''Tr.''1187; τ. δημόσιαι Arist.''Rh.''1361a36; <b class="b3">ἐκτίνων τροφάς</b>, much like [[τροφεῖα]], A.''Th.'' 548; οἷς ὀδύνας ἀντὶ τροφῶν ἔλιπον ''IG''12(5).973 (Tenos).<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[education]], [[Euripides|E.]]''[[Hecuba|Hec.]]''599 (pl.); τ. τε καὶ παιδεία Pl.''Alc.''1.122b, cf. [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Nicomachean Ethics|EN]]''1179b34, 1180a26, al.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[rearing of animals]] or [[keeping of animals]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]] 2.65; τροφαῖς ἵππων Pi.''O.''4.16.<br><span class="bld">III</span> sometimes in Poets for the concrete [[θρέμμα]], [[brood]], <b class="b3">νέα τροφή</b> a [[new]] [[generation]], [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Tyrannus|OT]]''1, cf. A.''Th.'' 786 (lyr.); of animals, <b class="b3">ἀρνῶν τροφαί</b>, i.e. [[young]] [[lamb]]s, E.''Cyc.'' 189.<br><span class="bld">IV</span> a [[place]] in [[which]] animals are [[rear]]ed, ἰβίων τροφαί ''PTeb.'' 5.70, cf. 62.19, al. (ii B. C.), ''PPetr.''3p.221 (iii B. C.), etc.