πτολίπορθος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ον, ([[πέρθω]]) [[destroyer of cities]], [[sacking cities]] or [[wasting cities]], [[epithet]] of [[Ares]], Il.20.152, Hes.Th.936; of [[Odysseus]] and [[Oïleus]], Il.2.278,728; of [[Achilles]], 15.77, etc.; also of [[Heracles]], Tab.Defix. in Stud.Ital.2(1922).394 (Cret., iv/iii B.C.); π. μάχαι Pi.O.8.35; πτολίπορθον στίχα Μήδων Epigr. ap. D.S.11.14:— also [[πτολιπόρθης]], ου, ὁ, A.Ag.472 (lyr.); as pr.n. of a son of [[Odysseus]], Paus.8.12.6:—the form [[πολίπορθος]] never occurs, for πτολίπορθ' (voc.) is rightly restored in A.Ag.783 (lyr.); cf. sq.