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ἀναπίμπλημι , 3sg.
A.“-πιμπλᾷ” Arist.Pr.967b4:—fill up, πίθον Epigr. ap. Luc.Dips.6: but mostly,
2. metaph., accomplish what is destined, as always in Hom., πότμον ἀναπλήσαντες having filled up the full measure of their fate, Il.11.263; “αἴ κε θάνῃς καὶ μοῖραν ἀναπλήσῃς βιότοιο” 4.170; ἀναπλῆσαι οἶτον, κακά, ἄλγεα, κήδεα, ib.8.465, 15.132, Od.5.302, 13.307 (v.l.), cf. Hdt.5.4, 6.12, 9.87, etc.
II. c. gen. rei, fill full of a thing, “καὶ ξυντυχών σ᾽ Ὑπέρβολος δικῶν ἀναπλήσει” Ar. Ach.847, cf. Nu.1023, Pl.Phlb.42a, D.20.28.
2. freq. with a notion of defiling, infecting, “ὡς πλείστους ἀναπλῆσαι αἰτιῶν” Pl.Ap.32c:— so in Pass., to be infected with disease, Th.2.51; “ἀ. τῆς τούτου [τοῦ σώματος] φύσεως” Pl.Phd.67a, cf. Iamb.Myst.5.15.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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