Strong G4813συλάω

σῡλ-άω,
imperfect contraction in Epic dialect ἐσύλα, σύλα, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.28, 4.116)]; Ionic dialect Iterat. σύλασκε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 480)]:—passive, future συληθήσομαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 761, συλήσομαι 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 4.7.10)]:—strip off, especially strip off the arms of a slain enemy, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (only in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”), Lyric poetry, etc. Construction:)]
1 in full, with accusative person et of things, strip off from another, strip him of his arms (compare σκυλεύω), μή μιν Ἀχαιοὶ τεύχεα συλήσωσι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.428, compare 16.500)]; ἔπειτα δὲ καὶ τὰ (i.e. ἔναρα).. νεκροὺς ἂμ πεδίον συλήσετε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (6.71; με κασίγνητον συλᾷς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 157 (_anapaest meter_); τὴν θεὸν τοὺς στεφάνους σεσυλήκασιν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.182)]:— passive, with accusative of things, to be stripped, robbed, deprived of a thing, σκῆπτρα συληθήσεται [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 761)]; ταῦτ᾽ (i.e. τὰ τόξα) ἐσυλήθην ἐγώ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 413; λέκτρα συλᾶσθαι βίᾳ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1275; συληθεὶς τὰς βοῦς 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.19; σεσυλήμεθα τὰ ἡμέτερα ὑπὸ τούτων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 35.26.)]
2 with accusative, strip a person of his arms, ἦ τινα συλήσων νεκύων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.343)]: generally, pillage, plunder, τὰ ἱρά, τοὺς θεούς, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.101, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 864d, etc.; τοὺς νεώς 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.155; θεῶν βρέτη 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 810; νεκρόν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 469d)]:—passive, βαρβάρων συλᾶσθ᾽ ὕπο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 600.)]
3 with accusative of things, strip off, ὄφρα τάχιστα τεύχεα συλήσειε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.466, etc.; frequently with additions, ἀπ᾽ ὤμων τεύχε᾽ ἐσύλα 6.28, etc.; τὰ μὲν ἔντε᾽ ἀπὸ χροὸς.. συλήσας 13.641.)]
3.b take off or out, ἐσύλα τόξον took out the bow [from its case], [Refs (4.105)]; σύλα πῶμα φαρέτρης took the lid off the quiver, [Refs ([prev. work] 116)]; with a notion of violence or suddenness, κρᾶτα σ. Μεδοίσας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 12.16.)]
3.c carry off, τοὺς πολεμίους οὐ συλήσειν αὐτά (i.e. τὰ χρήματα) will not seize them as booty, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.36, compare 9.116)]; θεῶν γέρα σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 83, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 922, “Ph.” 1365; λόγοις τὰ τῶν προγόνων ἔργα συλήσας καὶ διασύρας 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.313; σ. κατὰ βραχὺ τὴν τῶν πυρετῶν διάθεσιν 7th c.AD: Stephanus Medicus “in Gal.” 1.295 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator)]:—passive, to be carried off as spoil, ἄγαλμα σεσυλημένον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.118)]; to be taken away, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 799: _metaphorically_, συλᾶται ὕπνος ἀπὸ γλεφάρων 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus “fragment” 3.10.)]
3.d exercise right of σῦλαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” 9(1).333.3 (_Locrian dialect_, 5th c.BC):)] —passive, πανταχοῦ συλωμένων ἡμῶν the right of reprisals was exercised against us everywhere, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.33.)]
4 after [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus,)] with accusative person et genitive _of things_, τίς σε δαίμων συλᾷ πάτρα; carries thee away from.. , [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 669:)] —passive, συλαθεὶς ἀγενείων stealing from among the boys, and enlisting among the men, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.89.)]