Ἐκπέρσαι

to pillage

Translated by David Whitehead13 Mar 2007Vetting: high4 revisions

3 words

[Meaning] to sack.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐκπέρσαι· ἐκπορθῆσαι.

Betacode

*)ekpe/rsai: e)kporqh=sai.

Aorist infinitive of e)kpe/rqw, glossed (as in the scholia to Homer, Iliad 1.19, where it occurs) with the aorist infinitive of e)kporqe/w. Likewise in other lexica.
Other instances occur in tragedy (Aeschylus, Euripides).