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πέρθω

πέρθω, to waste, ravage, sack, destroy

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πέρσας Verb: aorist active participle masculine nominative singular, Verb: aorist active participle masculine vocative singular, Verb: aorist active indicative 2nd singular of πέρθω

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πέρθω, Il. 18.342: fut. πέρσω 21.584: aor. 1 ἔπερσα Od. 1.2, al.; Ep. inf. περσέμεν Q.S. 12.20: aor. 2 ἔπρᾰθον Pi. Pae. 6.91; poet. πράθον Id. N. 7.35; also Ep. (cf. δια-, ἐκ-πέρθω), but in Hom. aor. 1 is more common: Ion. impf. πέρθεσκον A.R. 1.800:—Pass., pres. and impf., Il. 2.374, 12.15: fut. Med. πέρσομαι in pass. sense, 24.729: aor. inf. Pass. πέρθαι 16.708:—
  • poet. Verb, waste, ravage, sack, in Hom. only of towns, Il. 18.342, Od. 1.2, al.: freq. in later poets, Orac. ap. Hdt. 7.220 (Pass.), Corinn. 16, Pi. N. 7.35, etc.:—Pass., πόλιν περθομέναν ἀτίμως A. Th. 325 (lyr.).
      • 2 of persons, destroy, slay, στρατόν Pi. O. 10(11).32; ἀνθρώπους S. Aj. 1198 (lyr.); δείματα θηρῶν E. HF 700 (lyr.); and even of one man, ἔπραθέ [νιν] φασγάνου ἀκμᾷ Pi. P. 9.81, cf. N. 3.37; μήτε μʼ ἂν νόσον μήτʼ ἄλλο πέρσαι μηδέν S. OT 1456: metaph., of love, E. Hipp. 542 (lyr.); of fire, πυρὶ περθόμενοι δέμας Pi. P. 3.50.
      • 3 of things, γενείου πέρθε τρίχα A. Pers. 1056; φύλλον ἐλαίης . . χερὶ πέρσας S. OC 703 (lyr.).
    • II get by plunder, take at the sack of a town, τὰ μὲν πολίων ἐξ ἐπράθομεν Il. 1.125; δμῳαὶ . . ἃς ἔπερσʼ ἐμὸς πατήρ E. El. 316.

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