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πλα^τύν-ω , (πλατύς)
A.widen, “τὰ φυλακτήρια” Ev.Matt.23.5; “τὴν εἰσβολήν” J.BJ5.8.1; π. τὸ στῖφος widen it out, ib.5.2.1; “τοὺς ἐφεξῆς στίχους” Arr.Tact.17.2: metaph., “τὴν ψυχὴν εὐγενεστέραν τῆς φύσεως πλατύνας” IG5(2).268.12 (Mantinea, i B.C.):—Med., τὴν γῆν πλατύνεσθαι widen one's territory, X.Cyr.5.5.34:—Pass., grow broad, widen out, Arist.Mir.841a2, Mu. 393a23, etc.; of the pupils, to be dilated, Plu.2.376f: metaph., “ἡ καρδία πεπλάτυνται” is opened, relieved from care, 2 Ep.Cor.6.11; “ἐπλάτυνας τὴν καρδίαν μου” LXXPs.118(119).32.
2. ἐπλατύνθη . . τὸ στόμα μου was opened wide, ib. 1 Ki.2.1: hence, metaph., μὴ πλατυνθῇ ἡ καρδία be puffed up, ib.De.11.16:—Med., talk big of oneself, τί πλατύνεαι, ἠλίθιος ὥς; Timo 34.4.
3. pronounce broadly, “τὴν φωνήν” Hermog.Id.1.6, Harp. s.v. λαρυγγίζειν.
4. amplify, “τὸν λόγον” Phld.Ind.Sto.24; “τὴν ἑρμηνείαν” Hermog.Prog.3:—Pass., “διήγησις πλατύνεται τρόποις” Id.Inv.2.7: abs., use amplification, D.H.Din.6.
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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