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γέμω , used only in pres. and impf.,
A.to be full, prop. of a ship, Hdt. 8.118, X.HG5.1.21: generally, “πάντα γ.” Jul.Mis.368c.
b. = κύειν, Hsch.
2. c. gen. rei, to be full of, “πλοῖα γέμοντα χρημάτων” Th.7.25; “λιμὴν ἔγεμεν πλοίων” Pl.Criti.117e; “κώμας πολλῶν καὶ ἀγαθῶν γεμούσας” X.An.4.6.27; of animals, to be laden. “ὄνοι γέμοντες οἴνου καὶ βρωμάτων” Posidon.5: metaph., “κόμπος τῆς ἀληθείας γ.” A.Ag.613, cf. S.OT4; “γέμω κακῶν δή” E.HF1245; “γ. θρασύτητος” Pl.Lg.649d; “ἀσυμμετ ρίας καὶ αἰς χρότητος γέμουσα ψυχή” Id.Grg.525a; “πικρίας” Phld. Ir.p.56 W.: c. dat., to be filled with, ἰτρίοισι, πέμμασι, Archipp.9, Antiph.174.2; “γῆν πυρὸς γέμουσαν ῥεύμασιν” Carc.5; “γ. ἐξ ἁρπαγῆς” Ev.Matt.23.25.
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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    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 613
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    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 4.6.27
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