A.sacking or wasting cities, epith. of Ares, Il.20.152, Hes.Th.936; of Odysseus and Oïleus, Il.2.278,728; of Achilles, 15.77, etc.; also of Heracles, Tab.Defix. in Stud.Ital.2(1922).394 (Cret., iv/iii B.C.); “π. μάχαι” Pi.O.8.35; πτολίπορθον στίχα Μήδων Epigr. ap. D.S.11.14:— also πτολι-πόρθης , ου, ὁ, A.Ag.472 (lyr.); as pr.n. of a son of Odysseus, Paus.8.12.6:—the form πολίπορθος never occurs, for πτολίπορθ᾽ (voc.) is rightly restored in A.Ag.783 (lyr.); cf. sq.
πτολί-πορθος , ον, (πέρθω)
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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