ἁπλόω,
(ἁπλοῦς) make single, unfold, spread out, οὐρήν[[ Batrachomyomachia 74 (variant), compare 80; σῶμα “Anthologia Graeca” 11.107 (1st c.AD: Lucillius Epigrammaticus); ἱστία 5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Argonautica” 360, etc.; σαγήνην 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.3; φάλαγγα 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 4.11.2; δακτύλους 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.73] Refs 1st c.AD+]; ἁ. τὸν ἄργυρον beat it thin, [[ Anacreont. 4.5] Refs]; expose a wound, [[ 6th c.AD: Justinianus Imperator “Novellae” 111 “Pr.”:] Refs 6th c.AD+] —passive, ἀγρευθεὶς εἰς τὸ πλοῖον ἡπλώθη [the fish] lay stretched out.., [[ 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 4.5] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ἀσπάραγος χαίρει γῇ ἡπλωμένῃ open ground, [[ “Geoponica” 12.18.1; ἁπλωθέντων ἱστίων 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 11.264] Refs 4th c.AD+]:—middle, [[“Anthologia Graeca” 10.9, 5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Argonautica” 278, 2nd c.AD: Dionysius Periegeta 235. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 metaphorically, ἅπλωσον σεαυτόν be simple, [[ 2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator 4.26] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—passive, to be simplified, [[ 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.7.35] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; but, to be expanded, [[ [prev. author] 3.5.9 (perhaps ἐξαπλ-). ] Refs]
__3 make plain, ὁδόν[[ LXX.Job.22.3.] LXX]