Κύριε, βοήθησον τὸν δοῦλον σου Νῖλον κτλ. → Lord, help your slave Nilos ... (mosaic inscription from 4th-cent. church in the Negev)
P. μειοῦσθαι, ἐλασσοῦσθαι.
fade: P. and V. μαραίνεσθαι; see fade.
Met., pass away: P. and V. διαρρεῖν, ἀπορρεῖν, φθίνειν (Plato).
