Sense

1. to light and keep up a fire, watch a fire, to stir up
2. to waste with fire, burn and destroy, to cause, to be burnt with fire

Examples

• ἀλλὰ τάσδε μὲν λαβεῖν χρῆν σ’ ἐκφέρειν τε τῶν ξύλων, καὶ καταίθειν τὸν πανοῦργον πυρπολεῖν θ’ ὅσον τάχοσ. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Choral, antistrophe 111)
• οἴμοι τίσ ἡμῶν πυρπολεῖ τὴν οἰκίαν; (Aristophanes, Clouds, Episode 1:13)
• πυρπόλει τοὺσ ἄνθρακασ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, strophe 1 1:18)
• κριθέντασ εἶναι οὐ γὰρ ἐᾷ τὴν γῆν αὐτῶν πυρπολεῖν οὐδὲ τέμνειν ἥμερα δένδρα, ἀλλὰ καὶ σκυλεύειν ἀπείρηκεν τοὺσ ἐν τῇ μάχῃ πεσόντασ, καὶ τῶν αἰχμαλώτων προυνόησεν, ὅπωσ αὐτῶν ὕβρισ ἀπῇ, μάλιστα δὲ γυναικῶν. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 176:1)
• ἔστι δὲ σκοπεῖν ἀπ’ ἀρχῆσ πρῶτα μὲν τὴν Πλαγγόνα, ἥτισ ὥσπερ ἡ Χίμαιρα πυρπολεῖ τοὺσ βαρβάρουσ εἷσ μόνοσ δ’ ἱππεύσ τισ αὐτῆσ τὸν βίον παρείλετο· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 6 4:3)

Similar forms

• πυρπολῶν (4)
• πυρπολεῖν (3)
• πυρπολῆσαι (3)
• πυρπολεῖ (2)
• πυρπολοῦσι (2)
• πυρπολήσας (1)
• Πυρπολέειν (1)
• πυρπόλῳ (1)
• πυρπόλει (1)
• πυρπολήματα (1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.