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φθινύθω

φθινύθω, to waste, consume

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φθινύθουσαι present active participle feminine nominative plural, present active participle feminine vocative plural of φθινύθω

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φθῐν-ύθω [ῠ],
  • poet. for φθίνω, only pres. and impf.; Ep. impf. φθινύθεσκε Il. 1.491.
      • 1 trans., waste, φθινύθουσιν ἔδοντες οἶκον ἐμόν Od. 1.250; οἶνον δὲ φ. 14.95; οἵ μευ φ. φίλον κῆρ cause it to pine away 10.485 (so perh. Il. 1.491); ἵνα μηκέτʼ ὀδυρομένη . . αἰῶνα φθινύθω waste my life, Od. 18.204; in later Ep., μαψίδιον φ. πόνον Opp. C. 4.186.
      • 2 intr., waste away, decay, perish, of men, λαοὶ μὲν φ. περὶ πτόλιν Il. 6.327, cf. 21.466, Od. 12.131; παυρότεροι . . φθίνυθον Il. 17.364; τούσδε ἔα φθινύθειν, as an imprecation, 2.346; also ἄχεϊ φ. παρειαί Od. 8.530, cf. 16.145.

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