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πλημυ?ρ-ω ,
A.= πλημυρέω, overflow, Call.Del.263, AP5.203 (Mel.), Orph.A.1053: hence, to be filled with food, Panyas.12.18; of the Nile, PLond.3.924.10 (ii A. D.); “γαῖα . . αἵματι πλημύρεσκεν” Q.S.11.161: metaph., “π. σθένει” B.5.107, cf. Ph. ap. Eus.PE8.14; “πλημύρουσα πᾶσιν ἀγαθοῖς ἡ Αἴγυπτος” OGI666.8 (Gizah, i A. D.).
2. swell, Archil.97; “μαζοὶ π.” A.R.4.706.
3. ἧπαρ πλημῦρον congested liver, Aret.CD1.3.
II. causal, make to flow, “μαστούς” Ph.1.8; “νύμφαι καλὰ νάματα πλημύρουσιν” Orph.A.494:—Pass., overflow, ib.715:—in Hsch. for πλημυρόν, πλημῦρον (as part.) shd. be read.
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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    • Bacchylides, Epinicians, 5.107
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 4.706
    • Aretaeus, De curatione diuturnorum morborum libri duo, 1.3
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