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ἀπο-τρίβω [ι_], fut. -ψω, strengthd. for τρίβω,
A.wear out, πολλά οἱ . . σφέλα . . πλευραὶ ἀποτρίψουσι his ribs will wear out many a footstool (thrown at him), Od.17.232.
II. rub clean, ἀ. ἵππον rub down a horse, X.Eq.6.2:—Med., “ἀ. τὸ αἰδοῖον” Plu.2.1044b.
III. rub off, “ἰόν” Theoc.16.17: metaph., “πρὶν γῆρας ἀποτρῖψαι νεότητα” Id.24.133:—Pass., to be rubbed off, Arist. Col.793a25:—Med., get rid of, “ἀδοξίαν” D.1.11; “ἐγκλήματα” Aeschin. 1.179; “τὸ πάθος” Arist.EN1105a2; “διαβολάς” D.S.17.5; τὸν πόλεμον, τὸν κίνδυνον, Plb.3.8.10, 10.14.1; τοὺς πελάζοντας ἀ. brush them away, Id.3.102.5; “τὴν ἄνθρωπον” Plu.Mar.40; quartanam Cic.Att.7.5.5; “λιμὸν τῆς γαστρός” Plu.2.1044b; decline, reject, “ἡμέραν” Inscr.Prien. 27.17; “τὴν πεῖραν” Plu.Thes.26; “δεήσεις” Id.Brut.17; “τὰ διδόμενα” OGI 315.82 (Pessinus, ii B.C.).
2. in Pass., ὥστε μηδὲν ἀπ᾽ αὐτῆς ἀποτρι^βῆναι, = ne quid detrimenti resp. caperet, D.C.40.49, etc.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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