σκυλεύω
skuleuō
- to despoil
STEPBible TBESG
Glosses: to despoil
1. to strip or despoil a slain enemy of his arms, (Hesiod); with accusative of persons or things, Κύκνον σκυλεύσαντες ἀπp ὤμων τεύχεα having stript the arms of Cycnus from his shoulders, (Hesiod)
2. with accusative rei et genitive pers. to strip the arms off an enemy, (Xenophon Historicus); so, ἀπὸ τῶν νεκρῶν σκ. ψέλια (Herdotus Historicus) (ML)