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μεστ-ός , ή, όν,
A.full, “ἄγγεα” Hom.Epigr.15.5; “ἐποίησεν τὴν πόλιν μεστήν” Ar.Eq.814; ἔγχεον μεστήν a full cup, Diph.20, cf. Alex.58; “μὴ μεστὰς ἀεὶ ἕλκωμεν” Antiph.207.1; of persons, “οἶνον πίνεις μ. ὤν” Alex.164, cf. Anaxandr.15.
II. c. gen., full of, “ἀργυρίου . . ἀρτάβη μεστή” Hdt.1.192; “τὸ στόμα . . μεστὸν βδελλέων” Id.2.68; “μ. ὕδατος” Ar. Nu.383; ἀλφίτων, οἴνου, ἐλαίου, Id.Pl.806sq.; ὄνος . . οἴνου μ. laden with . . , Id.V.617; “ἱμάτιον κηλίδων μ.” Thphr.Char.19.7.
2. metaph., “πάντα μ. ἐλπίδων ἀγαθῶν εἶναι” X.HG3.4.18; μεστοὶ σπουδῆς, ἀταξίας, Id.Smp.1.13, Mem.3.5.6; “πολλῆς ἀνοίας μ.” Isoc.5.45; “σοφία μ. ἐλέους καὶ καρπῶν ἀγαθῶν” Ep.Jac.3.17; “φόβων καὶ ἐρώτων μ.” Pl.R.579b; “ἀπάτης μ.” Id.Phd.83a, etc.; “ἐλευθερίας” Id.R.563d; μ. θεάτρου full of theatric pride, i. e. spoilt by applause, Id.Smp.194b; ὑπερηφανίας καὶ ὑπεροψίας μ. v.l. in D.21.195.
b. sated with, c. gen., E.IT804; “μ. εἰρήνης σαπρᾶς” Ar.Pax554; τινος (of a person) Plu.2.541d: c. part., μ. ἦ θυμούμενος, i. e. had had my fill of anger, S.OC768; “μ. ἐγένετο ἀγανακτῶν” D.48.28; “μεστοὶ τοῦ συνεχῶς λέγοντος” Id.18.308; also “μ. τὸν θυμόν” Plu.Alex.13.
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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