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πυρπολ-έω ,
A.light and keep up a fire, watch a fire, Od.10.30, X.Cyr. 3.3.25; π. τοὺς ἄνθρακας stir up, fan the fire, Ar.Av.1580.
II. burn with fire, Id.Th.727; τινα, of the bull of Phalaris, Phalar.Ep. 66.2:—Pass., Phld.Piet.89.
2. waste with fire, burn and destroy, “τὴν οἰκίαν” Ar.Nu.1497; “πόλιν” Id.V.1079; “π. καὶ καίουσι καὶ σφάττουσι” Luc.Cal.19:—Med., πᾶσαν πυρπολέεσθαι [τὴν ?αττικήν] cause it to be burnt with fire, Hdt.8.50.
3. assail with fiery missiles, “τοὺς ἐπὶ τῷ πύργῳ τοξότας” Palaeph.38, cf. 40.
4. metaph., ὥσπερ ἡ χίμαιρα π. τοὺς βαρβάρους, of a ἑταίρα, Anaxil.22.9, cf. Men.Mon.195; also of disease or pain, Nic.Th.245,364; of love, Ach.Tat.1.11.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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