ἐκπολιορκεῖν
From LSJ
τάλαιναι κόραι Φαέθοντος οἴκτῳ δακρύων τὰς ἠλεκτροφαεῖς αὐγάς → girls, in grief for Phaethon, drop the amber radiance of their tears
Greek > English (Woodhouse Verbs Reversed)
(see also ἐκπολιορκέω): reduce by siege, starve out, take by siege
Lexicon Thucydideum
expugnare, to storm, take by assault, 1.94.2. 3.94.2, 4.8.8, 4.26.4. 5.32.1,
PASS. 1.117.3. 1.131.1 (de Pausania concerning Pausanias), 4.19.1. 7.14.3. 7.75.5.
