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πλήθω

pletho

to be full

Appears 55 times across Plato's dialogues.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

πλήθω, poet. pf. (in pres. sense) πέπληθα Pherecr. 29, Herod. 7.84, Theoc. 22. 38, etc.: plpf. ἐπεπλήθει A.R. 3.271:—A. intr. form of πίμπλημι, mostly in pres. part., to be full, πλήθει . . νεκύων ἐρατεινὰ ῥέεθρα Il. 21.218; ναῦς . . ἀνδρῶν πληθούσας Simon. 142.7; θάλασσα . . ναυαγίων πλήθουσα καὶ φόνου A. Pers. 420, cf. 272; χεῖρας κρεῶν πλήθοντες having them full of . . , Id. Ag. 1220; τὸ στεγύλλιον πέπληθε καλῶν ἔργων Herod. l. c.: later c. dat., κρήνην . . ὕδατι πεπληθυῖαν Theoc. l. c.; δόνακι πλήθοντα λιπὼν ῥόον Call. Fr. 166, cf. AP 6.63 (Damoch.); πεπληθότα λύθρῳ Maiist. 25; but Ἄναυρος ὄμβρῳ χειμερίῳ πλήθων swollen with winterʼs rain, ὄμβρῳ being dat. of cause, Hes. Sc. 478: abs., of rivers, ποταμῷ πλήθοντι ἐοικώς Il. 5.87; ὡς δʼ ὁπότε πλήθων ποταμὸς πεδίονδε κάτεισι 11.492; of the full moon, σελήνη πλήθουσα 18.484, cf. Sapph. 3: in Att. Prose only in the phrases ἀγορᾶς πληθούσης, ἐν ἀγορᾷ πληθούσῃ, etc., v. ἀγορά IV: πληθούσης ἀγορᾶς rarely = in a full assembly, SIG 257.14 (Delph., iv B.C.). II. trans. only in later Poets, AP 14.7, Opp. C. 1.126, Q.S. 6.345:—Pass., A.R. 3.1392, 4.564, AP 5.232 (Maced.), Q.S. 14.607; πάσαις ἀρεταῖς πληθόμενον κραδίην BCH 50.44 (Thespiae, iv A.D.).
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