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ἀποπληρ-όω ,
A.= ἀποπίμπλημι, fill up, Hp.Art.45 (in irreg. form -πληρέουσιν), VM22.
2. satisfy, τὰς βουλήσεις, τὰς ἐπιθυμίας, Pl. R.426c, Lg.782e; satisfy an inquirer, κἀμὲ τάχ᾽ ἂν ἀποπληρώσαις ὡς . . Id.Chrm.169c, cf. Plt.286a; τοῦτό μοι ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ ἀποπλήρωσον make this complete for me, satisfy me in this, Id.Prt.329c:—Pass., Arist.Rh.1369b14.
II. complete, “ἑβδομήκοντα ἔτη” PFlor.382.10 (iii A. D.).
III. discharge a function, ib.2.23 (iii A.D.).
2. pay a debt, Hsch. s.v. ἐκτετικότας.
3. fulfil a promise, Hdn.2.7.1.— Prose word, also in E.Oen.4.6 A.（Pass.).
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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    • Plato, Laws, 782e
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    • Plato, Charmides, 169c
    • Plato, Protagoras, 329c
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