τὸ πολὺ τοῦ βίου ἐν δικαστηρίοις φεύγων τε καὶ διώκων κατατρίβομαι → waste the greater part of one's life in courts either as plaintiff or defendant
adverb from a compound of πολύς and τρόπος; in many ways, i.e. variously as to method or form: in divers manners.
(from πολυτρόπος, in use in various senses from Homer down), adverb, in many manners: Philo de incor. mund. § 24)); see πολυμερῶς.