Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, λεία

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A.booty, plunder, freq. in Hdt. (v. infr.), etc. (Hom. and Hes. always use ληΐς); esp. of cattle, opp. ἄνθρωποι, Pi.l.c., Th.2.94 (v. infr. 4); “λείας ἀπαρχὴν βοῦς” S.Tr.761, cf. Aj.54, 145 (anap.): pl., ἐφθαρμένας εὑρίσκομεν λείας ἁπάσας ib.26; rarely of persons, “ἀγόμεθα λεία” E.Tr.614; prey of hunters, Id.Rh.326: generally, booty, Th.8.3, X.HG1.2.4, 1.3.2; τοὺς λοιποὺς ληΐην θέσθαι give them up as plunder, Hdt.4.202; λείαν ποιεῖσθαι τὴν χώραν, = λεηλατεῖν τὴν χώραν, Th.8.41; “λείαν ἄγειν” X.Cyr.5.3.1; “ἐπὶ λείαν ἐκπορεύσονται” Id.An.5.1.8, etc.; “κατὰ ληΐην ἐκπλῶσαι” Hdt.2.152: pl., “διεσκεδασμένοι κατὰ τὰς ἰδίας λείας” X.HG1.2.5: prov., Μυσῶν λεία, of anything that may be plundered with impunity, Stratt.35, D.18.72, Arist.Rh.1372b33.

2. plunder (as an act), “ζῶσι ἀπὸ ληΐης καὶ πολέμου” Hdt.4.103.

3. stolen property, “τὴν λ. ἀποδοῦναι” PCair.Zen.145.16 (iii B.C.), cf. PSI4.438.10-13 (iii B.C.).

4. flocks and herds, cattle, “ἀπογραφὴ λείας” PHib.1.33.2 (iii B.C.), cf. PPetr.3p.279 (iii B.C.), BGU1012 (ii B.C.), D.S.19.21, 97; “ἀτέλεια τῆς λ.” OGI748.9 (Cyzic., iii B.C.). (Lit. the people's property, cf. Lat. populari 'plunder'.)

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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