[Meaning] the first-fruits of the annual crops. But in the strict sense akrothinia is the name for the first-fruits which those [who make their living] out of importing dedicate, because they are saved from the sand [a)po\ tou= qino/s], that is from the sea-shore. Others [say they are] the spoils of war, since many people are spoiled [si/nesqai], that is harmed, in war. Or the tops of heaps.[1]
Or plunder.[2]
Heraclides the Lycian sophist, said: 'Nicetes the purified', unaware that he was fitting spoils of pygmies onto a colossus.[3]
[There is] a proverb, 'to fit spoils of pygmies onto a colossus'; in reference to people labouring in vain.[4]