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πληθύω

πληθύω, to be or become full

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πληθύοντες present active participle masculine nominative plural, present active participle masculine vocative plural of πληθύω

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πληθ-ύω, aor. subj. πληθύσῃ Pl. Ti. 83e:—
  • intr. form of πληθύνω, to be or become full, c. gen., νεκρῶν π. πέδον E. HF 1172; ἡ πόλις π. ἀνδρῶν Arist. Pol. 1270a39; ἡ τοῦ γάλακτος πληθύουσα τροφή ib. 1336a7: c. dat., πληθύοι αὐτῷ οἶκος παίδων γοναῖς IG 12(9).1179.38 (Euboea, ii A.D.): abs., ἀγορῆς πληθυούσης, v. ἀγορά IV; ὁ δῆμος ὁ Ἀθηναίων πληθύων IG 1(2).114.26, al., cf. Schwyzer 412 (Elis); of rivers, swell, rise, Hdt. 2.19, 20, etc.:—Med., ἐπεὰν πληθύεσθαι ἄρχηται ὁ Νεῖλος (v.l. πλήθεσθαι) ib. 93.
      • 2 increase in number, multiply, A. Ch. 1057, Pl. Lg. 678b; increase in time, ὁ πληθύων χρόνος S. OC 930:—Med., φῦλον ἐν τῷ ἑνὶ -όμενον possessing multiplicity in unity, Iamb. Myst. 1.6.
      • 3 abound, Pl. R. 405a; τινι in a thing, S. Tr. 54.
      • 4 increase, grow, of the σπέρμα, Arist. Pol. 1335a27.
      • 5 spread, prevail, ὡς ἐπλήθυον λόγοι A. Ag. 869; ὁ πληθύων λόγος the current story, S. OC 377.
    • II πληθύνω is generally trans., -ύω intr.; but πληθύω is trans. in S. Fr. 718, κύναρος ἄκανθα πάντα πληθύει γύην, and πληθύομαι is Pass. (in signf. make multiple, ‘plurify’) in Procl. Inst. 125, Dam. Pr. 139: πληθύνω is intr. in later writers, Arist. Mete. 351b7, GA 738a37 (in both places with v.l.), LXX Ex. 1.20, al., v.l. in Nic.Dam. 19 J., Act.Ap. 6.1, Hdn. 3.8.8; and πληθύομαι is Med. in Hdt. 2.93 (s.v.l., v. supr.), and in codd. of A. Supp. 604; cf. συμπληθύω. [ἐπλήθῠον A. Pers. 421; πληθῡεται dub. in Id. Supp. 604; quantity of υ elsewh. indeterminate.]

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