The corpus record

λεηλ-ᾰτέω

leelateo

drive away booty

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Where it lives

Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
Hellenica 6 · 0.91/10k
Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
Cyropaedia 2 · 0.25/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

λεηλ-ᾰτέω · leēl-ateō — LSJ

drive away booty, cattle

drive away booty, esp. cattle, S. Aj. 343, E. Rh. 293, X. HG 4.4.15, al., Aen. Tact. 16.8.

2 plunder, despoil, ravage, to be plundered, to be a slave to

c. acc. loci, plunder, despoil, τὸ πεδίον, τὴν πόλιν, τὴν χώραν, Hdt. 2.152, 5.101, Hdn. 3.9.3, cf. Hell.Oxy. 16.5, Plu. Cam. 17; ravage, κώμην PMasp. 2 iii 3 (vi A.D.):—Pass., to be plundered, τὰ ἐκ τῆς χώρας λεηλατηθέντα Aen.Tact. 16.11: metaph., τῇ γαστρὶ λεηλατεῖσθαι to be a slave to . . , Plu. Sanit. 2.133a.

In the wild

λεηλατοῦντες · leēlatountes Euripides, Hecuba *polumh/stwr (DIORISIS sentence 649)
λεηλατήσων · leēlatēsōn Euripides, Rhesus (DIORISIS sentence 191)
λεηλατῆσαι · leēlatēsai Herodotus, Histories 5.101.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6061)
λεηλατεῖν · leēlatein Septuaginta, Machabaeorum II 2
λεηλατήσει · leēlatēsei Sophocles, Ajax 342–343
λεηλατῆσαι · leēlatēsai Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.4.17 (DIORISIS sentence 328)

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Where it came from

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