σῡλ-άω,
imperfect contraction in Epic dialect ἐσύλα, σύλα, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.28, 4.116 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect Iterat. σύλασκε [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 480 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—passive, future συληθήσομαι [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 761, συλήσομαι 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 4.7.10 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—strip off, especially strip off the arms of a slain enemy, [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (only in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”), Lyric poetry, etc. Construction: ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__1 in full, with accusative person et of things, strip off from another, strip him of his arms (compare σκυλεύω), μή μιν Ἀχαιοὶ τεύχεα συλήσωσι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.428, compare 16.500 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἔπειτα δὲ καὶ τὰ (i.e. ἔναρα).. νεκροὺς ἂμ πεδίον συλήσετε [[ 6.71; με κασίγνητον συλᾷς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 157 (_anapaest meter_); τὴν θεὸν τοὺς στεφάνους σεσυλήκασιν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.182 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:— passive, with accusative of things, to be stripped, robbed, deprived of a thing, σκῆπτρα συληθήσεται [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 761 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ταῦτ᾽ (i.e. τὰ τόξα) ἐσυλήθην ἐγώ [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 413; λέκτρα συλᾶσθαι βίᾳ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1275; συληθεὶς τὰς βοῦς 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.19; σεσυλήμεθα τὰ ἡμέτερα ὑπὸ τούτων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 35.26. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 with accusative, strip a person of his arms, ἦ τινα συλήσων νεκύων [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.343 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: generally, pillage, plunder, τὰ ἱρά, τοὺς θεούς, etc., [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.101, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 864d, etc.; τοὺς νεώς 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.155; θεῶν βρέτη 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 810; νεκρόν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 469d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, βαρβάρων συλᾶσθ᾽ ὕπο [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 600. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]