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θρεπ-τικός , ή, όν,
A.able to feed or rear, τινος Pl.Plt.267b, cf. 276b, 276c; nourishing, “-ώτερα μῆλα” Diph.Siph. ap. Ath.3.82f; -ώτατος οἶνος Mnesith.ib.1.32d.
II. of or promoting growth, “ἡ δύναμις τῆς ψυχῆς θ. καὶ γεννητική” Arist.de An.416a19; ἡ θ. ψυχή ib.415a23; τὸ θ. the principle of growth, Id.EN1102b11; ἡ θ. καὶ αὐξητικὴ ζωή ib. 1098a1; opp. φθαρτικός, Polystr.p.23 W. Adv. “-κῶς” Porph.Gaur.1.1.
III. causing to heal up, “ἑλκῶν” Dsc.1.43.
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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