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|mdlsjtxt=[[there]] is no diff. of [[sense]] in Act. and Pass.]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> to [[decay]], [[wane]], [[dwindle]], of [[Time]], [[πρίν]] κεν νὺξ [[φθῖτο]] (aor2 [[pass]]. opt.) [[first]] would the [[night]] be [[come]] to an end, Od.; so, τῆς νῦν φθιμένης νυκτός Soph.; φθίνουσιν νύκτες τε καὶ ἤματα they [[wane]] or [[pass]] [[away]], Od.; [[μηδέ]] σοι αἰὼν φθινέτω let not thy [[life]] be [[wasted]], Od.:— so, in the [[monthly]] [[reckoning]], μηνῶν φθινόντων in the [[moon]]'s [[wane]], i. e. [[towards]] the [[month]]'s end, Od.:— μὴν φθίνων the [[ending]] of the [[month]], v. [[ἵστημι]] B. III. 3.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> of the stars, to [[decline]], set, Aesch.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> of men, to [[waste]] [[away]], [[pine]], [[perish]], Hom., Eur.;—of things, to [[fade]] [[away]], [[disappear]], Soph.:—so in Pass., αὐτὸς φθίεται Il.; ἤδη φθίσονται Hom.:—often in [[part]]. [[φθίμενος]], [[slain]], [[dead]], Il.; φθίμενοι the [[dead]], φθιμένοισι μετείην Od., Trag.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> Causal, in fut. φθίσω [ῑ], aor1 ἔφθῑσα, to make to [[decay]] or [[pine]] [[away]], to [[consume]], [[destroy]], Hom.; [[once]] in Aesch. φθίσας [ι].