πλήσι-ος, α, ον,
Boeotian dialect πλᾱτίος [[ “Rev.Ét.Gr.” 10.29 (from Thespiae)] Refs]: (πέλας, πελάζω):— near, close to, with genitive, πλησίοι ἀλλήλων variant in [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.249; πλησίαι ἀλλήλων 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.71. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 with dative, πλησίοι ἀλλήλοισι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.732, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.149, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 761. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__3 absolutely, near, neighbouring, πλησίαι αἵ γ᾽ ἥσθην [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.21; uncertain reading in 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 195; οἱ π. γύαι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 58; τῶν πλησίων ἱερῶν “OGI” 736.5 (from Egypt)] Refs 8th c.BC+]: substantive, neighbour, ἰδὼν ἐς π. ἄλλον [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.271, etc.; οἱ π. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.152, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 471, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II adverb πλησίον, Aeolic dialect πλάσιον [ᾱ] [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 2.3, “Supp.” 6.1 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; Doric dialect πλᾱτίον: ={πέλας}, near, hard by, with genitive, τὰ μὲν κατέθεντ᾽ ἐπὶ γαίῃ π. ἀλλήλων [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.115, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.14; Σωφροσύνας πλατίον οἰκεῖ 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 101, compare “IG” 42(1).123.15 (Epid., 4th c.BC)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κεῖται στενωποῦ π. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 366; στῆθι π. πατρός 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1076; στρατοπεδεύεσθαι π. τινῶν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.111; ὁρῶ δέ σ᾽ ἤδη τοῦδε π. κακοῦ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1439; π. παρῆσθα κινδύνων ἐμοί [prev. author] “Or.” 1159: with _dative_, σταθεῖσα τῷ τεκόντι π. [prev. author] “IA” 1551; τοῖς πολεμίοις π. προσέρχομαι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.234d. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]