διαφθείρω: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=fut. -φθερῶ epic -φθέρσω perf. -έφθαρκα and [[διέφθορα]] Pass., fut. -φθᾰρήσομαι ionic -φθερέομαι ionic 3rd pl. plup. [[διεφθάρατο]]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> to [[destroy]] [[utterly]], Il., Hdt., [[attic]]: to make [[away]] with, [[kill]], [[destroy]], [[ruin]], Soph., etc.; δ. χέρα to [[weaken]], [[slacken]] one's [[hand]], Eur.: to [[disable]] a [[ship]], Hdt.:—absol. to [[forget]], Eur.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> in [[moral]] [[sense]], to [[corrupt]], [[ruin]], Aesch., Plat., etc.:— esp. to [[corrupt]] by bribes, Hdt., Dem.: to [[seduce]], Lys.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> οὐδὲν διαφθείρας τοῦ χρώματος having changed [[nothing]] of his [[colour]], Plat.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> Pass. to be destroyed, [[crippled]], [[disabled]], Hdt.; τὴν ἀκοὴν διεφθαρμένος [[deaf]], Hdt.: τὰ σκέλεα δ. with [[their]] legs [[broken]], Hdt.; τὰ ὄμματα δ. [[blind]], Plat.; τὰς φρένας Eur.; τὸ φρενῶν διαφθαρέν [[loss]] of one's [[mind]], Eur.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> perf. [[διέφθορα]] is intr. in Hom., to [[have]] [[lost]] one's wits;— but in [[attic]] [[transitive|trans.]], Soph., Eur.