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|Definition=<span class="bibl">Il.18.342</span> : fut. <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> πέρσω <span class="bibl">21.584</span> : aor. 1 ἔπερσα <span class="bibl">Od.1.2</span>,al.; Ep. inf. περσέμεν <span class="bibl">Q.S.12.20</span>: aor. 2 ἔπρᾰθον <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">Pae.</span>6.91</span>; poet. πράθον <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">N.</span>7.35</span> ; also Ep. (cf. <b class="b3">δια-, ἐκ-πέρθω</b>), but in Hom. aor. 1 is more common: Ion. impf. πέρθεσκον <span class="bibl">A.R.1.800</span>:—Pass., pres. and impf., <span class="bibl">Il.2.374</span>, <span class="bibl">12.15</span> : fut. Med. <b class="b3">πέρσομαι</b> in pass. sense, <span class="bibl">24.729</span> : aor. inf. Pass. πέρθαι <span class="bibl">16.708</span>:—poet. Verb, <b class="b2">waste, ravage, sack</b>, in Hom. only of towns, <span class="bibl">Il.18.342</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.1.2</span>,al.: freq. in later poets, Orac. ap. <span class="bibl">Hdt.7.220</span> (Pass.), <span class="bibl">Corinn.16</span>, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>7.35</span>, etc.:—Pass., πόλιν περθομέναν ἀτίμως <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>325</span> (lyr.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> of persons, <b class="b2">destroy, slay</b>, στρατόν <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>10(11).32</span> ; ἀνθρώπους <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>1198</span>(lyr.); δείματα θηρῶν <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">HF</span>700</span>(lyr.); and even of one man, ἔπραθέ [νιν] φασγάνου ἀκμᾷ <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>9.81</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">N.</span>3.37</span> ; μήτε μ' ἂν νόσον μήτ' ἄλλο πέρσαι μηδέν <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>1456</span> : metaph., of love, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hipp.</span>542</span> (lyr.); of fire, πυρὶ περθόμενοι δέμας <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>3.50</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> of things, γενείου πέρθε τρίχα <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>1056</span> ; φύλλον ἐλαίης . . χερὶ πέρσας <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>703</span> (lyr.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">get by plunder, take</b> at the sack of a town, τὰ μὲν πολίων ἐξ ἐπράθομεν <span class="bibl">Il.1.125</span> ; <b class="b3">δμῳαὶ . . ἃς ἔπερσ' ἐμὸς πατήρ</b> <span class="bibl">E. <span class="title">El.</span>316</span>.</span>