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ἀναπληρ-όω ,
A.fill up a void, Pl.Ti.81b, cf. 78d; τὸ κεχηνὸς τῆς ἑρμηνείας, τοῦ ῥυθμοῦ, A.D.Synt.266.22, Luc.Tim.1:—Pass., to be filled up, Arist.Cael.306b4.
2. make up, supply, “εἴ τι ἐξέλιπον ἀ.” Pl.Smp.188e; “τὴν ἔνδειαν” Arist.Pol.1318b22; τοὺς . . ἀμόρφους ἀνατληροῖ ἡ τοῦ λέγειν πιθανότης compensates them, Id.Fr.101:—Med., δώματ᾽ ἀ. fill their houses, E.Hel.907.
3. fill up the numbers of a body, “τὴν βουλήν” Plu.Publ.11, cf. X.Vect.4.24; ἀ. τὴν συνηγορίαν fill the place of advocate (left vacant by another), Plu.Crass.3, cf. 1 Ep.Cor.14.16.
4. pay in full, τὰς ὠνάς, of tax-farmers, PPar.62.5.3 (ii B. C.):—in Med., get paid, receive, “ἕως ἀνεπληρώσατο τὴν προῖκα” D. 27.13.
5. use expletive particles, Demetr.Eloc.58.
6. fulfil, “ἀναπληροῦται ἡ προφητεία” Ev.Matt.13.14; of a task, perform, PPetr. 3p.104.
II. Pass., to be restored to its former size or state, ἀνεπληρώθη ὁ ἥλιος, after an eclipse, Th.2.28; “ἀναπληρουμένης τῆς φύσεως” being in process of restoration, Arist.EN1153a2, cf. HA548b18.
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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    • Demosthenes, Against Aphobus 1, 13
    • Euripides, Helen, 907
    • Plato, Symposium, 188e
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    • Plato, Timaeus, 81b
    • Xenophon, Ways and Means, 4.24
    • New Testament, 1 Corinthians, 14.16
    • New Testament, Matthew, 13.14
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.28
    • Plutarch, Crassus, 3
    • Plutarch, Publicola, 11
    • Lucian, Timon, 1
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