Ancient Greek

Noun

πτολίεθρον • ‎(ptolíethron)

1. city
   • 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:

Synonyms

• πτόλις ‎(ptólis), πόλις ‎(pólis)

References

• πτολίεθρον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πτολίεθρον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πτολίεθρον in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «πτολίεθρον» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• πτολίεθρον in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter