A.make a false note in music, but in usage, metaph., offend, err, “τί πλημμελήσας;” E.Ph.1655, cf. Pl.Phd.117e, al.; “τοὺς ἑκουσίως καὶ δι᾽ ὕβριν πλημμελοῦντας” D.21.42; “περί τι” Antipho 3.3.6; “παρὰ τοὺς νόμους” Din.1.62; “εἰς δίκην” Pl.Lg.943e, cf. Rev.Phil.1929.142 (Iasos), POxy.1119.18 (iii A.D.); “εἴς τινα τῷ λόγῳ” Aeschin.1.167, cf. Phld.Ir.p.83 W.: c. part., “μὴ οὖν τι πλημμελήσομεν καλοῦντες . .;” Pl.R.480a, cf. Sph. 244b : rarely c. acc., offend against, “τὸν πάλαι προτετελευτηκότα” D.S. 10.14:—Pass., “τὰ εἰς ἀλλήλους πεπλημμελημένα” Isoc.5.37; “τὰ πλημμεληθέντα τῷ δήμῳ περὶ τοὺς στρατηγούς” Plu.Arist.26; to be wronged or sinned against, Pl.Phdr.275e; ὑπό τινων Decr. ap. D.18.155; κατ᾽ οὐδὲν ὑφ᾽ ἡμῶν πεπλημμελημένοι Philipp.ib.166; ἐάν τι πλημμεληθῇ if anything goes wrong, Arist.PA664b29.
πλημμελ-έω , prop.
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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