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

A.“πέρσω” 21.584 : aor. 1 “ἔπερσα” Od.1.2,al.; Ep. inf. “περσέμεν” Q.S.12.20: aor. 2 “ἔπρα^θον” Pi.Pae.6.91; poet. “πράθον” Id.N.7.35 ; also Ep. (cf. δια-, ἐκ-πέρθω), but in Hom. aor. 1 is more common: Ion. impf. “πέρθεσκον” A.R.1.800:—Pass., pres. and impf., Il.2.374, 12.15 : fut. Med. πέρσομαι in pass. sense, 24.729 : aor. inf. Pass. “πέρθαι” 16.708:—poet. Verb, waste, ravage, sack, in Hom. only of towns, Il.18.342, Od.1.2,al.: freq. in later poets, Orac. ap. Hdt.7.220 (Pass.), Corinn.16, Pi.N.7.35, etc.:—Pass., “πόλιν περθομέναν ἀτίμως” A.Th.325 (lyr.).

2. of persons, destroy, slay, “στρατόν” Pi.O.10(11).32 ; “ἀνθρώπους” S.Aj.1198(lyr.); “δείματα θηρῶν” E.HF700(lyr.); and even of one man, “ἔπραθέ [νιν] φασγάνου ἀκμᾷ” Pi.P.9.81, cf. N.3.37 ; “μήτε μ᾽ ἂν νόσον μήτ᾽ ἄλλο πέρσαι μηδέν” S.OT1456 : metaph., of love, E.Hipp.542 (lyr.); of fire, “πυρὶ περθόμενοι δέμας” Pi.P.3.50.

3. of things, “γενείου πέρθε τρίχα” A.Pers.1056 ; “φύλλον ἐλαίης . . χερὶ πέρσας” S.OC703 (lyr.).

II. get by plunder, take at the sack of a town, “τὰ μὲν πολίων ἐξ ἐπράθομεν” Il.1.125 ; δμῳαὶ . . α<*>ς ἔπερσ᾽ ἐμὸς πατήρ E. El.316.