πορθ-έω,
collateral form of πέρθω (more used in Prose), destroy, ravage, plunder, πόλεας καὶ τείχεα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.308; ἀνδρῶν ἀγρούς 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.264; τοὺς χώρους 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.58; πόλιν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 583, etc.; Φοινίκην 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 9.62; τὴν Σελλασίαν ἔκαον καὶ ἐπόρθουν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.5.27; τὴν ἤπειρον 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.57; τὴν χώραν λεηλατῆσαι καὶ τὴν πόλιν πορθῆσαι 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 12.34; π. ἐκ τῶν ἱερῶν τὰ ἀγάλματα 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 12.523b ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—passive, πᾶν τὸ ἄστυ ἐπορθέετο [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.84; ὅλης τῆς Ἑλλάδος πεπορθημένης 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 10.49; τἀργύρια πορθεῖται ] Refs 5th c.BC+]is carried off, [[ 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 155. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 in present and imperfect, sometimes endeavour to destroy, besiege a town, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.162, Decrees cited in 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.164, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 12.34, 15.4. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 of persons, destroy, ruin, θεοὺς τοὺς ἐγγενεῖς [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 583; φίλους 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 605 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, do havoc, [[ [prev. author] “Andr.” 633 ] Refs]: especially in passive, αὐτοὶ ὑφ᾽ αὑτῶν.. πορθούμεθα. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 194; κατ᾽ ἄκρας.. ὡς πορθούμεθα [prev. author] “Ch.” 691 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of women, κόραι βία πρὸς ἀνδρῶν πορθούμεναι [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 565 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σκόροδα πορθούμενος robbed of them, Comedy texts phrase in [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 164. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]