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πέρθω

πέρθω

Ancient Greek

Verb

πέρθω (pérthō)

  1. to sack, ravage, destroy (a city); to slay (a person)
    800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.1–2
    Ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, Μοῦσα, πολύτροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ
    πλάγχθη, ἐπεὶ Τροίης ἱερὸν πτολίεθρον ἔπερσε·
    Muse, sing for me of the man of many ways, who wandered very far, after he sacked the holy city of Troy:
  2. to get by plundering

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