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πληρ-όω , 3pl. impf. ἐπληροῦσαν cited by Choerob.in Theod.2.64 H. from E.Hec.574: fut. -ώσω: pf. πεπλήρωκα, Aeol. part. πεπληρώκων IG12(2).243.9 (Mytil.):—Med., fut. πληρώσομαι （ἐπι-) Th.7.14 (v. infr.): aor.
A.“ἐπληρωσάμην” Pl.Grg.493e, X.HG5.4.56, etc.:—Pass., fut. “-ωθήσομαι” Pl.Smp.175e, Aeschin.2.37; fut. Med. in pass. sense, X.Eq.Mag.3.6, D.17.28, Gal.2.560:—make full:
I. c. gen. rei, fill full of, “λάρνακας λίθων” Hdt.3.123, etc.; κρατῆρα, πίστρα (sc. οἴνου), E.Ion1192, Cyc.29:—Pass., to be filled full, τινος of a thing, Hp.VM 20, Pl.R.550d, etc.; “σάλπιγξ βροτείου πνεύματος -ουμένη” A.Eu.568; “ἀπό τινος” Porph.Sent.32.
2. fill full of food, gorge, satiate, “βορᾶς ψυχὴν ἐπλήρουν” E.Ion1170: metaph., π. θυμόν glut one's rage, S.Ph. 324, E.Hipp.1328; “τὰς ἐπιθυμίας” Pl.Grg.494c:—Pass., to be filled full of, satisfied, “δαιτὸς -ωθείς” E.Fr.213.3; “Αἴγυπτος ἁγνοῦ νάματος -ουμένη” A.Fr.300.6; φόβου, ἐλπίδος, etc., Pl.Lg.865e, R.494c, etc.; also “οὐ πληρωθήσεται οὖς ἀπὸ ἀκροάματος” LXXEc.1.8.
3. π. τὴν χεῖρά τινος consecrate, ib.Ex.32.29, al., Jd.17.5,12.
II. rarely c. dat., fill with, “πεύκαισιν . . χέρας πληροῦντες” E.HF373 (lyr.):—Pass., πνεύμασιν -ούμενοι filled with breath, A.Th.464; “πεπληρωμένους πάσῃ ἀδικίᾳ” Ep.Rom.1.29, cf. 2 Ep.Cor.7.4.
III. without any modal case, π. νέας man ships, Hdt.1.171, cf. Th.1.29 (Act. and Pass.) (in full “πεντηκόντερον π. ἀνδρῶν” Hdt.3.41); “π. ναυτικόν” Th.6.52; πληροῦτε θωρακεῖα man the breastworks, A.Th.32:—Med., “τριήρη πληρωσάμενος” Is.11.48, cf. X.HG5.4.56, etc.; in full, “ἐπληρωσάμην τὴν ναῦν ἐρετῶν ἀγαθῶν” D.50.15.
2. impregnate, [τὰ θήλεα] Arist.HA574a20, Metaph.988a6:—Pass., of the female, ibid., HA541a13.
3. make full or complete, “τοὺς δέκα μῆνας” Hdt.6.63; π. τοὺς χρόνους, τὸν ἐνιαυτόν, Pl.Lg. 866a, Ti.39d; “τὸν τῆς καταδίκης χρόνον” Sammelb.4639.5 (iii A. D.), cf. POxy.491.6 (ii A. D.), etc.:—Med., “τὰ πάντα ἐν πᾶσι π.” Ep.Eph.1.23:— Pass., of the moon, to be full, S.Fr.871.6; “ἵνα . . ᾖ τοι ἀπαρτιλογίη ὑπ᾽ ἐμέο πεπληρωμένη” Hdt.7.29; “πεπλήρωται ὁ καιρός” Ev.Marc.1.15, etc.: Math., πεπληρώσθω let the figure be completed, Arist.Mech.854b29.
4. π. δικαστήρια fill them, D.24.92:—Pass., “δικαστήριον πεπληρωμένον ἐκ τούτων” Id.21.209, cf. Is.6.37; “πληρουμένου . . βουλευτηρίου” A.Eu. 570.
5. render, pay in full, “τροφεῖα πληρώσει χθονί” Id.Th.477; π. τὴν χρείαν supply it, make it good, Th.1.70; “πεπλήρωκα τὸν τόκον μέχρι τοῦ Ἐπείφ” POxy.114.3 (ii/iii A. D.), cf. BGU1055.23 (Pass., i B. C.): c. dupl. acc., “ἵνα πληρώσῃς αὐτοὺς τὴν τιμήν” PLond.2.243.11 (iv A. D.), cf. 251.30 (Pass., iv A. D.), etc.: abs., IG14.956.
6. fulfil, τὸ χρεών (destiny) Plu.Cic.17; τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν, τὰς ὑποσχέσεις, Arr. Epict.2.9.3, Hdn.2.7.6; “π. πᾶσαν ἀρχὴν καὶ λειτουργίαν” IG12(5).946.1 (Tenos), cf. 12(2) l.c. (Mytil.), PFlor.382.40 (iii A.D.), Lyd.Mag.3.30, al.; execute, perform, “τὰ προσταχθέντα” POxy.2107.5 (iii A. D.):—Pass., “λαμπαδηφόρων νόμοι . . διαδοχαῖς πληρούμενοι” fully observed, A.Ag.313; to be fulfilled, of prophecy, Ev.Matt.1.22, Ev.Jo.13.18.
7. ἐς ἄγγος . . βακχίου μέτρημα πληρώσαντες having poured wine into the vessel till it was full, E.IT954:—Pass., assemble, muster, “πληρουμένης τῆς ἐκκλησίας” Ar.Ec.89; “ἀρχαί τ᾽ ἐπληροῦντ᾽ εἰς . . βουλευτήρια” E.Andr.1097 codd.; “πολλοὶ δ᾽ ἐπληρώθημεν” Id.IT306.
8. fill up a document, Lyd.Mag.3.11:—Pass., ib.68.
IV. intr., ἡ [ὁδὸς] πληροῖ ἐς τὸν ἀριθμὸν τοῦτον the length of road comes in full to this number, Hdt.2.7 (s. v.l.).
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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