ἐκπολιορκεῖν
From LSJ
ὤμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πληγὴν ἔσω → Alas! I am struck deep with a mortal blow! | Ah me! I am struck—a right-aimed stroke within me (Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1343)
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.
