τῷ πυρὶ τῆς ὁδοῦ τεκμαιρόμενοι → judging of the road by the fire
SourceGreek > English (Woodhouse Verbs Reversed)
(see also κείρω): clip, cut, devastate, hew, pillage, ravage, shear, cut the hair, hew out, lay waste
Lexicon Thucydideum
populari, to devastate, plunder, 1.64.2.