A.strip or despoil a slain enemy, esp. of his arms (taking off the clothes also is condemned by Pl., R.469c), not in Hom.; c. acc. pers. et rei, “Κύκνον σκυλεύσαντες ἀπ᾽ ὤμων τεύχεα” Hes.Sc.468; ς. τοὺς τελευτήσαντας πλὴν ὅπλων strip of anything but arms, Pl. l.c.; [“ἀμφίσβαιναν] δέρματος” Nic.Th.379: c. acc. pers. only, “ς. τοὺς νεκρούς” Hdt.1.82, Th. 4.44,97, cf. BCH51.148 (Salamis Cypr.); “ς. τὰς πόλεις” Plb.9.10.13.
σκυ_λ-εύω ,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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