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|Definition=<span class="bld">A</span> [[light and keep up a fire]], [[watch a fire]], Od.10.30, [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]'' 3.3.25; <b class="b3">πυρπολέω τοὺς ἄνθρακας</b> [[stoke the coals]], [[stir up]], [[fan]] the [[fire]], [[Aristophanes|Ar.]]''[[The Birds|Av.]]''1580.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[burn with fire]], Id.''Th.''727; τινα, of the [[bull]] of [[Phalaris]], Phalar.''Ep.'' 66.2:—Pass., Phld.''Piet.''89.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[waste with fire]], [[burn and destroy]], τὴν [[οἰκία]]ν Ar.''Nu.''1497; πόλιν Id.''V.''1079; π. καὶ καίουσι καὶ σφάττουσι Luc.''Cal.''19:—Med., <b class="b3">πᾶσαν πυρπολέεσθαι [τὴν Ἀττικήν]</b> [[cause]] it to [[be burnt with fire]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]8.50.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[assail with fiery missiles]], τοὺς ἐπὶ τῷ πύργῳ τοξότας Palaeph.38, cf. 40.<br><span class="bld">4</span> metaph., <b class="b3">ὥσπερ ἡ χίμαιρα π. τοὺς βαρβάρους</b>, of a [[ἑταίρα]], Anaxil.22.9, cf. Men.''Mon.''195; also of [[disease]] or [[pain]], Nic.''Th.''245,364; of [[love]], Ach.Tat.1.11.