ἁρπάζειν
From LSJ
Ἐπηγγείλατο εἰς ἐπανόρθωσιν τῆς πόλεως διὰ τὸ εἶναι ευσεβεστάτη καὶ κηδεμονικὴ. → She pledged herself to the reconstruction of the city because of her being most pious and dutiful.
Greek > English (Woodhouse Verbs Reversed)
(see also ἁρπάζω): pillage, plunder, rob, seize, snatch, carry off, elope with, snatch away, snatch up
Lexicon Thucydideum
rapere, to seize, 1.5.1,
diripiebant, they were plundering aut or rapinas faciebant., they were committing robberies. 6.101.6, [Vat. H. Vatican Homer ἀναρπ.] 6.104.2, [vulgo commonly ἀναρπ.] abreptus, seized, stolen.
