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πλεον-άζω (rarely πλειονάζω , q.v.), fut. -άσω: pf.
A.“πεπλεόνακα” D.S.1.90:—Pass., pf. “-ασμαι” Hp.Fract.7, etc.: aor. “-άσθην” Id.Art.47: (πλέον):—to be more, esp. to be more than enough, superfluous, opp. ἐλλείπειν, ὑπολείπειν, Arist.EN1106a31, Col.799a18; τὸ πλεονάζον the excess, PRev.Laws 57.13 (iii B. C.), LXXEx.26.12; π. παρά c. acc., to be in excess of . . , ib.Nu.3.46; “ἐπλεόνασεν ἡ ἁμαρτία” Ep.Rom.5.20; of animals, have more than the due number of limbs, opp. κολοβὰ γίνεσθαι, Arist.GA770b32; of visits, to be frequent, Plb.4.3.12; of the sea, encroach, Arist.Mete.351b6, cf. Plu.2.366b; πάθος defined as ὁρμὴ πλεονάζουσα, Zeno Stoic.1.50; εἰκασία ἐστὶ μεταφορὰ πλεονάζουσα simile is expanded metaphor, Demetr.Eloc. 80; “τὸ ς_ πλεονάσαν” used to excess, D.H.Comp.14: Gramm., to be redundant, Demetr.Lac.Herc.1012.21, etc.; “Ἀρίσταρχος οὐκ ἔλεγε πλεονάζειν τὸ ἄρθρον” A.D.Synt.6.2; also of letters, τὸ ε_ πλεονάζει (in ἑ-ώρων) Id.Pron.58.25; but π. τῷ ι_ to have an added ι_ (as in ἐμεῖο), ib. 38.20; cf. 111.6.
2. c. gen., exceed, opp. λείπω, Ptol.Geog.1.20.7: abs., τὸ -άζον ἔργον the extra work, PLille 1v.16 (iii B. C.); τοὺς -άζοντας τῶν ρκέ (sc. ἐρίφους) the odd 25 out of 125, PCair.Zen.422.7 (iii B. C.).
II. of persons, go beyond bounds, take or claim too much, Isoc.2.33, 12.85, D.9.24, 39.14: c. dat., presume upon . . , “εὐτυχίᾳ” Th.1.120; but “π. κυνηγεσίαις” go beyond bounds in . . , Str.11.5.1; of a writer, “τοῖς ὀνόμασι π.” Id.3.3.7: abs., to be lengthy, tedious, Id.9.1.16, D.S.1.90, LXX2 Ma.2.32; περί τινος Parmenisc. ap. Ath.4.156d.
2. π. τινός have an excess of, abound in a thing, opp. ἐνδεὴς εἶναι, Arist.Pol.1257a33, cf. Epicur.Sent.4; but π. τοῦ καιροῦ exceed all bounds . . , of a writer, D.H.Comp.22.
III. c. acc., state at a higher figure, Str.6.3.10:—Pass., to be magnified, exaggerated, [“νομίσειεν ἂν] ἔστιν ἃ πλεονάζεσθαι” Th.2.35, cf. Str.2.4.3; πεπλεόνασται has been overdone, opp. ἐνδεὲς πεποίηται, Hp.Fract.7, cf. Art.47.
2. make to increase, “τινὰς τῇ ἀγάπῃ” 1 Ep.Thess.3.12.
3. eat in too great quantity, τι Diph.Siph. ap. Ath.8.356d, Dsc.4.75, 82 (all Pass.).
4. raise the price of, τι Aristid.1.170J.
5. Pass., to be deceived, prob. f.l. for πλεονεκτεῖσθαι, Stob.2.7.11m.
6. Gramm., use in addition or redundantly, εἰώθασιν οἱ Ἀττικοὶ τὰ ἄρθρα πλεονάζειν Sch.Ar.Pl.5; “Αἰολεῖς πλεονάζουσιν ἕτερον σύμφωνον” EM84.18:—Pass., τὸ υ_ πλεοναζόμενον ψιλοῦται ib.440.12.
7. to be in excess of unity, partake of plurality, Procl.Inst.2.
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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