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σκῡλ-εύω

skuleuo

strip, despoil a slain enemy, off

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Where it lives

Habacuc 2 · 18.28/10k
Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
Paralipomenon II 6 · 3.05/10k
Judith 2 · 2.28/10k
Against Eratosthenes 1 · 2.07/10k
Zacharias 1 · 2.07/10k
Ezechiel 5 · 1.73/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
Lysistrata 1 · 1.26/10k
Machabaeorum I 2 · 1.15/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

σκῡλ-εύω · skyl-euō — LSJ

strip, despoil a slain enemy, strip

strip or despoil a slain enemy, esp. of his arms (taking off the clothes also is condemned by Pl., R. 469c), not in Hom.; c. acc. pers. et rei, Κύκνον σκυλεύσαντες ἀπʼ ὤμων τεύχεα Hes. Sc. 468; σ. τοὺς τελευτήσαντας πλὴν ὅπλων strip of anything but arms, Pl. l.c.; [ἀμφίσβαιναν] δέρματος Nic. Th. 379: c. acc. pers. only, σ. τοὺς νεκρούς Hdt. 1.82, Th. 4.44, 97, cf. BCH 51.148 (Salamis Cypr.); σ. τὰς πόλεις Plb. 9.10.13.

2 strip, off

c. acc. rei et gen. pers., strip the arms off an enemy, ὅπλα τῶν πολεμίων σ. Lys. 12.40, cf. X. An. 6.1.6, HG 2.4.19; ἀπὸ τῶν . . νεκρῶν σ. ψέλια κτλ. Hdt. 9.80.

In the wild

σκυλεύετε · skyleuete Aristophanes, Lysistrata 461 (DIORISIS sentence 351)
σκυλεύοντες · skyleuontes Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
ἐσκύλευέ · eskyleue Euripides, Phoenissae *)/aggelos (DIORISIS sentence 827)
σκυλεύσαντα · skyleusanta Herodotus, Histories 1.82.6 (DIORISIS sentence 569)
ἐσκύλευον · eskyleuon Herodotus, Histories 9.80.2 (DIORISIS sentence 9851)
σκυλεύσαντες · skyleusantes Shield of Heracles 467–468

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