πτολί-πορθος

πτολί-πορθος, ον, ([etym.] πέρθω)

A sacking or wasting cities, epith. of Ares, Il.20.152, Hes.Th. 936; of Odysseus and Oïleus, Il.2.278, 728; of Achilles, 15.77, etc.; also of Heracles, Tab.Defix. in Stud.Ital.2(1922).394 (Cret., iv/iii B.C.);

π. μάχαι Pi.O.8.35

; πτολίπορθον στίχα Μήδων Epigr. ap. D.S.11.14:— also [suff] πτολι-πόρθης, ου, ὁ, A.Ag. 472 (lyr.); as pr.n. of a son of Odysseus, Paus.8.12.6:—the form πολίπορθος never occurs, for πτολίπορθ' (voc.) is rightly restored in A.Ag. 783 (lyr.); cf. sq.

πτολί-πορθος, Städte zerstörend, der Städteeroberer, -zerstörer; Oileus, Ἐνυώ, Ares, oft vom Achilleus u. vom Odysseus

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `citadel, fort, city, city community, state' (Il.; on the meaning in Hom. Hoffmann Festschr. Snell 153ff.).

Other forms: Also (ep. Cypr. Thess.) πτόλις, - εως, Ion. - ιος, - ηος;

Dialectal forms: Myc. potorijo has been interpreted as *Πτολίων.

Compounds: As 1. member e.g. in πτολί-πορθος (- πόρθιος, - πόρθης) `sacking cities, destroyer of cities' (ep. Il.); enlarged in IA. πολιοῦχος (from - ιο-ουχ.); Dor. πολι-ά̄-οχος, - ιᾶχος, ep. πολι-ή-οχος `ruling a city, city protector'; in A. also the unexplained πολισσο- in πολισσοῦχος, πολισσο-νομέω. Very often as 2. member, e.g. ἀκρο-πολις = πόλις ἄκρη `upper town, citadel' (Od.); on this and on the other compp. Risch IF 59, 261 ff.

Derivatives: 1. expressive enlargement πτολί-εθρον n. (ep. Il.); cf. μέλαθρον, θέμεθλα, ἔδεθλον (Schwyzer 533). 2. Diminut. πολίχνη f., often as PlN (IA.) with - ίχνιον (Att.); πολίδιον (ῑ̆) n. (Str.). 3. Πολιεύς (- ηύς) m. `city guardian' (Thera before V<sup>a</sup>, Arist., hell.; Bosshardt 60); f. Πολιάς (IA., Arg.). 4. πολίτης (ῑ; ep., Sapph., Att.), πολι-ά̄-τας, - ή-της (Dor. Aeol., Β 806, Ion.; after οἰκιά-τας, - ιή-της a.o.) m. `citizen, townsman', f. - ῖτις (S., E., Pl.); from this πολιτ-ικός `civic, political' (Hdt. 7, 103, Att.; Chantraine Études 123); - εύομαι, - εύω `to be citizen, to take part in state affairs' (Att. etc.; πολιατεύω Gortyn) with - εία, Ion. - ηίη, - ευμα (Hdt., Att.; on the meaning Wilhelm Glotta 14, 78ff., 83f., Papazoglou REGr. 72, 100ff. resp. Ruppel Phil. 82, 268ff., Engers Mnem. 54, 154ff.); also πολιτισμός `administration' (D. L.; - ισμός analog., Chantraine Form. 143). 5. Denominat. πολίζω, aor. - ίσ(σ)αι, rare a. late with ἐν-, συν- a.o., `to found (a city), to cultivate a place by founding a city' (ep. Ion., X.) with πόλ-ισμα `foundation (of a city)' (Ion. poet., Th.; Chantraine Form. 189), - ισμάτιον (hell.), - ισμός `foundation of a city' (D. H., Lyd.), - ιστής `founder of a city' (Poll. 9, 6; rejected).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [799] * pelH- `fortification' from * pelH- `pout'?

Etymology: The byform πτόλις (also Arc. Πτόλις, name of the castle in Mantinea; Thess. οἱ ττολίαρχοι w. assim.) is not convincingly explained. Hypotheses w. further details in Schwyzer 325 (w. lit.); further Kretschmer Glotta 22, 206, Deroy Ant. class. 23, 305ff., Merlingen Μνήμης χάριν 2, 57, Ruijgh L'élém. ach. 75ff., 112 n. 4 (cf. also on πτόλεμος). To be rejected the identification of πόλις from *pu̯olis with Arm. k'alak` `town' (Winter Lang. 31,8).-- Old word for `castle, refugecastle', except in Greek further only in the east attested (cf. Kretschmer Glotta 22, 107, Porzig Gliederung 173): Skt. pū́r f., acc. púr-am, Lith. pilìs f. Both the Skt. and the Lith. word show zero grade, which has also been considered possible for πόλις (Schwyzer 344); the i-stem in πόλ-ις and pil-ìs is secondary enlargement. Thee repeated proposals, to connect this very ancient word for `citadel' with the verb for `fill' ( πίμπλημι; since Pott) or for `dump' (Lith. pìlti; Fick; lastly Fraenkel Zeitschr. slav. Phil. 6, 91), has as unproven hypothesis not much interest. -- WP. 2, 51, Pok. 799, Mayrhofer and Fraenkel s. vv. w. further details a. lit.

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     (ῐ) разрушающий города

    

(Ἄρης, Ὀδυσσεύς Hom.; μάχαι Pind.)

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `to destroy, to devastate' (Il.).

Other forms: Aor. πέρσαι, πραθεῖν, fut. πέρσω (Il.). Inf. pass. πέρθαι (Π 708), prob. sigmat. aor. *περθσ-(σ)θαι (Wackernagel Unt. 90 n. 2, Schwyzer 751), if not simply haplolog. for πέρθεσθαι with Meillet MSL 22, 262 (agreeing Kretschmer Glotta 13, 263), unclear πέρθετο (Μ 15 a.o.), in sense in any case aoristic (Schwyzer 746 and Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 389f.).

Compounds: Also w. δια-, ἐκ-, συν-. As 1. member in governing compp. περσέ-π(τ)ολις `destroying cities' (A. in lyr.); as 2. member in πτολί-πορθος `id.' (Il.), also - ιος (ι 504), - ης (A. in lyr.). Verbal noun πέρσις f. `destruction' as title of several poems (Arist., Paus.).

Derivatives: Deverbative πορθέω, aor. πορθῆσαι, also m. δια-, ἐκ- a.o. `to destroy, to devastate, to pillage' (Il.) with ( εκ-)-πόρθησις (D.), - ημα (Pl.), ( ἐκ-)-ήτωρ (A., E.), - ητής (E.), *ητήριος (Tz.), - ητικός (H.).

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: Without convincing etymology. By Uhlenbeck Et. Wb. d. aind. Spr. 187 and PBBeitr. 30, 276 connected with Skt. bardhaka- `cutting off', m. `carpenter' and with several Germ. words for `plate, table', e.g. OE bred a. bord (prop. *'slice, what is cut off'?); quite uncertain; cf. also Benveniste Origines 192 n. 1. Further connection with IE * bher- in φάραγξ (s. v.) a.o. by Persson Stud. 45 [impossible]. Lat. perdō is to be kept apart. -- WP. 1, 174, Pok. 138; s. also W.-Hofmann s. forceps.

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