πηρ-όω,
Doric dialect πᾱρόω (see. below), (πηρός) maim, mutilate, especially in the limbs, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 623 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐὰν παῖδας ὄντας πηρώσῃ τις castrate, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 631 b31; αἴ κα σῦς καρταῖπος παρώσει “GDI” 4998i14 (from Gortyn)] Refs 4th c.BC+]: more frequently in passive, πηροῦται τὸ σκέλος τούτοισι [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 60, compare “GDI” [same place] ; τὸ σκέλος πεπηρωμένος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.67; πεπήρωται τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 620a1, compare 4th c.BC: Ephorus Historicus 1 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so of moles, lobsters, to be defective in point of eyes, claws, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 491b34, “PA” 684a35 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὥσπερ πεπηρωμένον τετράπουν, of the seal, [[ [prev. author] “HA” 498a32; τὸ πηρωθὲν ἐν τῇ ὑστέρᾳ [prev. author] “GA” 749a2, etc. ] Refs]
__2 metaphorically, incapacitate, τέχνην.. πηρῶσαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 257a; π. τὴν ἱστορίαν 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 17.3.3:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —passive, πεπηρωμένος πρὸς ἀρετήν incapacitated for practising virtue, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1099b19; πρὸς τὴν γνῶσιν 4th c.BC: Anaxarchus Philosophus cited in 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 7.55, compare 298; πρὸς καρπογονίαν 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 1.5.5. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]