[Meaning] they removed dishonorably.1Aelian [writes]: "the altar they overturned, and whatever ornamentation was laid on [it], this they stripped off."2
1The headword is aorist indicative active of perispa/w, third person plural, presumably extracted from the quotation given. (For other senses of this verb, see pi 1290, pi 1291.)↩
2Aelian fr. 174b and part of 174a Domingo-Forasté (171 Hercher); cf. tau 322.↩