πολλαὶ κατὰ πολλὰ φθοραὶ γεγόνασιν ἀνθρώπων
what is this ατὰ πολλὰ? Loeb translates it as ‘divers’ but I cannot find it in dictionaries.
Bailly has κατα πολυ ‘de beaucoup’ but I am not sure if it is the same as here.
It’s distributive, by many at a time.