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πλήθ-ω,
poetry perfect (in present sense) πέπληθα [[ 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 29, 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 7.84, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22. 38, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: pluperfect ἐπεπλήθει [[ 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.271:] Refs 3rd c.BC+] — _intransitive_ form of πίμπλημι, mostly in present participle, to be full, πλήθει.. νεκύων ἐρατεινὰ ῥέεθρα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.218; ναῦς.. ἀνδρῶν πληθούσας 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 142.7; θάλασσα.. ναυαγίων πλήθουσα καὶ φόνου 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 420, compare 272 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; χεῖρας κρεῶν πλήθοντες having them full of.., [[ [prev. author] “Ag.” 1220; τὸ στεγύλλιον πέπληθε καλῶν ἔργων 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus [same place]: later with _dative_, κρήνην.. ὕδατι πεπληθυῖαν 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus [same place]; δόνακι πλήθοντα λιπὼν ῥόον 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Fragmenta” 166, compare “Anthologia Graeca” 6.63 (6th c.AD: Damocharis Epigrammaticus); πεπληθότα λύθρῳ 3rd c.BC: Maiistas Epicus 25 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; but Ἄναυρος ὄμβρῳ χειμερίῳ πλήθων swollen with winter's rain, ὄμβρῳ being dative of cause, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 478: _absolutely_, of rivers, ποταμῷ πλήθοντι ἐοικώς 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.87; ὡς δ᾽ ὁπότε πλήθων ποταμὸς πεδίονδε κάτεισι 11.492 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of the full moon, σελήνη πλήθουσα [[ 18.484, compare 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 3: in _Attic dialect_ Prose only in the phrases ἀγορᾶς πληθούσης, ἐν ἀγορᾷ πληθούσῃ, etc., see at {ἀγορά} IV: πληθούσης ἀγορᾶς] Refs 7th c.BC+] rarely = in a full assembly, [[ “SIG” 257.14 (Delph., 4th c.BC). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II transitive only in later Poets, [[“Anthologia Graeca” 14.7, 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 1.126, 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 6.345 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]:—passive, [[ 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.1392, 4.564, “Anthologia Graeca” 5.232 (1st c.AD(?): Macedonius Epigrammaticus), 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 14.607; πάσαις ἀρεταῖς πληθόμενον κραδίην “BCH” 50.44 (Thespiae, 4th c.AD). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries in present and imperfect formed like{ἵστημι}; Aeolic dialect 3rd.pers. plural πίμπλεισι [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 25.3 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; Epic dialect 3rd.pers. singular subjunctive πιμπλῇσι [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 301 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; imperative πίμπλη conjecture in [[ 4th c.BC: Xenarchus Comicus 3, ἐμ-πίμπλη 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1310 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; participle πιμπλάς [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 586b; but _nominative_ _plural_ _feminine_ πιμπλεῖσαι 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 880 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: imperfect 3rd.pers. plural ἐπίμπλασαν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.5.10: other tenses from πλήθω (which in _present_ and _imperfect_ is _intransitive_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: future πλήσω [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 692, (ἀνα-) 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.302 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: aorist ἔπλησα [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 905, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Epic dialect πλῆσα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.60, +others: _perfect_ πέπληκα (ἐμ-) 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 23e, “Ly.” 204d:—_middle_, _future_ πλήσομαι (ἐμ-) 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 1121, 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Συριακή” 7 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:aorist ἐπλησάμην [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.224, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—passive, future πλησθήσομαι [[ NT.Luke.1.15, 2nd c.AD(?): Charito Scriptor Eroticus 5.5, 4th c.AD: Himerius Sophista “Orationes” 23.14, (ἐμ-) 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 664, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.69; also πεπλήσομαι 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Abstinentia - Porphyrii Opuscula” 1.16 ] NT+5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐπλήσθην [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.156, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Epic dialect 3rd.pers. plural πλῆσθεν [[ 17.211, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.705 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: perfect πέπλησμαι [[ 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 60, (ἐμ-) 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 518b ] Refs 5th c.BC+], 3rd.pers. plural πεπλήαται [[ 7th-6th c.BC(?): Semonides Iambographus 31 A, πέπληνται 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ φυσῶν” 8; also shortened form πλῆνται 4th-5th c.BC: Parmenides Poeta Philosophus 1.13: ] Refs 7th c.BC+]aorist 2 ἐπλήμην, Epic dialect 3rd.pers. singular and plural πλῆτο, πλῆντο, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.499, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.57, 4th-5th c.BC: Parmenides Poeta Philosophus 12.1; ἐν-έπλητο 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 911, 1304; _imperative_ ἔμ-πλησο [prev. work] 603 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; optative ἐμ-πλῄμην, -ῇτο, [[ [prev. author] “Ach.” 236, “Lys.” 235 ] Refs]; participle ἐμ-πλήμενος [[ [prev. author] “V.” 424, 984, etc.] Refs] —In the _compound_ ἐμπίμπλημι (which see; more frequently in Prose) the second μ is sometimes dropped, as ἐμπίπλημ; but returns with the augment, as in ἐνεπίμπλασα; compare πίμπρημι:—fill, with genitive of things, fill full of.., τράπεζαν ἀμβροσίης [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.93; πήρην σίτου καὶ κρειῶν 17.411 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. τινὰ μένεος, θάρσευς φρένας, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.60, 17.573; καλάμης τὸ πλοῖον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.194; π. κρητῆρα κακῶν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1398; πίμπλημ᾽ ὄμμα δακρύων 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 906 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; δακρύων ἔπλησεν ἐμέ filled me full of tears, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 368 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with dative of things, fill with.., ἰαχῇ τε φόβῳ τε πάσας πλῆσαν ὁδούς [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.374; δακρύοις Ἑλλάδ᾽ ἅπασαν ἔπλησεν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1363 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; simply, fill, ἰχθύες.. πιμπλᾶσι μυχούς [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.23, compare 14.35, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 411, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 494a; π. μέλος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 57.4: _absolutely_, πίμπλη σὺ μὲν ἐμοί (i.e. τὴν κύλικα) 4th c.BC: Xenarchus Comicus 3. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 fill full, satisfy, glut, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 146, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 fill, discharge an office, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 361 (uncertain). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II middle, fill for oneself, or what is one's own, πλησάμενος οἴνοιο δέπας having filled himself a cup of wine, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.224, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.112, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. νῆας load ships, [[[prev. work] 87 ] Refs]; π... θυμὸν ἐδητύος ἠδὲ ποτῆτος fill up, satiate one's desire with..,[[ 17.603; ματρόθεν δυσώνυμα λέκτρ᾽ ἐπλήσω 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 528 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πεδία πίμπλασθ᾽ ἁρμάτων fill the plain full of your chariots, variant in [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 522. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III passive, to be filled, be full of, τῶν.. ἐπλήσθη πεδίον [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.156; πλῆτο ῥόος.. ἵππων τε καὶ ἀνδρῶν 21.16; ὄσσε δακρυόφι πλῆσθεν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.705, etc.; μένεος.. φρένες.. πίμπλαντο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.104; πλῆσθεν.. μέλε᾽ ἐντὸς ἀλκῆς 17.211 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀλκῆς πλῆτο φρένας[[.. [prev. work] 499; ἀϋτῆς.. ἐπλήσθη στέγος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 646: rarely with _dative_, λέκτρα δ᾽ ἀνδρῶν πόθῳ πίμπλαται δακρύμασι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 134 (Lyric poetry); δάκρυσι τὸ στράτευμα πλησθέν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.75. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.2 to be filled, satisfied, have enough of a thing, αἱμάτων γένυσιν πλησθῆναι [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 121 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. τῆς νόσου ξυνουσίᾳ to be wearied of it by being with it, [[ [prev. author] “Ph.” 520; ἡδονῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 442a, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.3 of females, become pregnant, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 576b29, 578b32 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]. (Cf. Sanskritpiparti 'fill', pūrṇá-, Latin plenus, Gothic fulls, etc. 'full'.)
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