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ἑλέπολις

elepolis

city-destroying

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Where it lives

Iphigenia in Aulis 2 · 2.24/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k

What it meant

ἑλέπολις · helepolis — LSJ

city-destroying

city-destroying, epith. of Helen, A. Ag. 689 (lyr.); of Iphigenia, E. IA 1476 (lyr.), 1511 (lyr.); of Lamia, Com.Adesp. 303.

II engine for sieges

fem. Subst., engine for sieges, invented by Demetrius Poliorcetes, D.S. 20.48, Plu. Demetr. 21, Ph. Bel. 95.39, Vitr. 10.16.4, etc.; ἄνευ μηχανῆς καὶ ἑ. Alciphr. 3.45: pl., ἑ. μηχαναί D.H. 9.68.

metaph., of a person, ἑ. τῆς Ἑλλάδος Hp. Ep. 11; also ἡ τῶν ἀνοσίων ἑ. τοῦτο (sc. πένθος) Ph. 2.191.

In the wild

ἑλέπτολις · heleptolis Aeschylus, Agamemnon 687–698
ἑλέπτολιν · heleptolin Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 1475 (DIORISIS sentence 949)
ἑλέπτολιν · heleptolin Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis (DIORISIS sentence 964)

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