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Βίων δύο ἔλεγε διδασκαλίας εἶναι θανάτου, τόν τε πρὸ τοῦ γενέσθαι χρόνον καὶ τὸν ὕπνον → Bion used to say that we have two teachers for death: the time before we were born and sleep | Bion said that there are two rehearsals for death: the time before being born and sleep
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
verb transitive
smear: Ar. and P. ἀλείφειν, P. ἐπαλείφειν, Ar. παραλείφειν, V. χρίειν, προχρίειν; see anoint.
rub against. rubbing flint against flint I produced with pain a dim spark: V. ἀλλ' ἐν πέτροισι πέτρον ἐκτρίβων μόλις ἔφην' ἄφαντον φῶς (Soph., Philoctetes 296).
rub away: P. and V. τρίβειν, Ar. and P. κατατρίβειν.
rub down (as a horse): Ar. and P. καταψῆν (Xen.), P. and V. ψήχειν (Xen. also Ar.), V. καταψήχειν, κτενίζειν.
rub off: Ar. and V. ἀποψῆν; see wipe away.
rub out: P. and V. ἐξαλείφω, ἐξαλείφειν, P. ἀπαλείφειν.
erase: P. ἐκκολάπτειν; see erase.
hard to rub out, adj.: P. δυσέκνιπτος, V. δύσνιπτος.
rub up, polish: P. λαμπρύνεσθαι (Xen.).
substantive
Met., difficulty: P. and V. ἀπορία, ἡ; see difficulty.
