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|Definition=Ep. πλείω <span class="bibl">Od.15.34</span>, <span class="bibl">16.368</span>: Ep. impf. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> ἀπ-έπλειον <span class="bibl">8.501</span>: also Ep.and Ion. πλώω (v. infr.): Att. contr. imper. πλεῖ <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Tr.</span>102</span>(anap.): fut. πλεύσομαι <span class="bibl">Od.12.25</span>, <span class="bibl">Il.11.22</span> (ἀνα-), <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.29</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.6.104</span>, etc.; later πλευσοῦμαι <span class="title">SIG</span>402.27 (Chios, iii B. C.), found in codd. of <span class="bibl">Th.1.143</span>, <span class="bibl">8.1</span>, (ἐπεσ-) <span class="bibl">Id.4.13</span>, (συνεκ-) <span class="bibl">Lys.13.25</span>, (ἀπο-) <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Hp.Ma.</span>370d</span>, <span class="bibl">371b</span>, (συμ-) <span class="bibl">Isoc.17.19</span>, etc.; Dor. πλευσοῦμαι <span class="bibl">Theoc.14.55</span>; but 3pl. πλεύσονται <span class="title">GDI</span>5120<span class="title">B</span>11,13 (Crete, iii B. C.); πλεύσω <span class="bibl">Philem. 116</span> (S.V.l.), <span class="bibl">Plb.2.12.3</span>, <span class="title">AP</span>11.162 (Nicarch.), <span class="bibl">245</span> (Lucill.), <span class="title">OGI</span>572.30 (Lycia, ii/iii A.D.), etc.: aor. 1 ἔπλευσα <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>691</span> (lyr.), etc.: pf. πέπλευκα <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span>404</span>, etc.:—Pass., fut. [[πλευσθήσομαι]] (περι-) <span class="bibl">Arr.<span class="title">An.</span>5.26.2</span>: aor. [[ἐπλεύσθην]] ib.<span class="bibl">6.28.6</span>, <span class="bibl">Babr.71.3</span>: pf. πέπλευσμαι <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>6.1.16</span>, <span class="bibl">D.56.12</span>: Hom. uses only pres., impf., and fut. [[πλεύσομαι]] (v. supr.).—Of the Ion. πλώω, Hom. uses opt. πλώοιεν <span class="bibl">Od.5.240</span>, part. <b class="b3">ἐπι-πλώων</b> ib.<span class="bibl">284</span>, πλώων <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Hom.</span>22.7</span>: impf. πλῶον <span class="bibl">Il.21.302</span>; also shortd. aor. <b class="b3">ἔπλων, ως, ω,</b> part. [[πλώς]], in the compds. <b class="b3">ἀπ-έπλω, ἐπ-έπλως</b>, part. <b class="b3">ἐπιπλώς, παρέπλω;</b> and Hes. has <b class="b3">ἐπ-έπλων;</b> the pres., impf., and fut. forms occur as vv.ll. in Hdt., inf. πλώειν <span class="bibl">4.156</span>, part. πλωούσας <span class="bibl">8.10</span>,<span class="bibl">22</span>,<span class="bibl">42</span>: impf. [[ἔπλωον]] ib.<span class="bibl">41</span>; Iterat. πλώεσκον <span class="bibl">Q.S.14.656</span>: fut. [[πλώσομαι]] (ἀπο-) <span class="bibl">Hdt.8.5</span> (πλώσω Lyc.1044); but the aor. 1 forms are read in Hdt., ἔπλωσα <span class="bibl">4.148</span>; inf. πλῶσαι <span class="bibl">1.24</span>; part. πλώσας <span class="bibl">4.156</span>, <span class="bibl">8.49</span> (also once in Hom. in compd. ἐπι-πλώσας <span class="bibl">Il. 3.47</span>): pf. παρα-πέπλωκα <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.99</span>; [[πέπλωκα]] occurs <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hel.</span>532</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar. <span class="title">Th.</span>878</span> (paratrag.).—Only εε and εει are contracted in Att. ([[πλέει]] is f.l. in <span class="bibl">Th.4.28</span>, and [[πλέετε]] v.l. in <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>7.6.37</span>). [Hom. uses [[πλέων]] as monosyll., πλέων ἐπὶ οἴνοπα πόντον <span class="bibl">Od.1.183</span>]:—[[sail]], [[go by sea]], Λακεδαίμονος ἐξ ἐρατεινῆς <span class="bibl">Il.3.444</span>; Ἰλιόθεν <span class="bibl">14.251</span>; ἐπὶ Κέρκυραν <span class="bibl">Th. 1.53</span>; εὐθὺ Λέσβου <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>1.2.11</span>; <b class="b3">π. ἐπὶ [σῖτον</b>] to fetch it, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Oec.</span>20.27</span>; ἐπί τι <span class="title">IG</span>12.105.9; <b class="b3">μετὰ [νάκος</b>] <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>4.69</span>; εἰς Ἐρέτριαν ἐπ' ἄνδρας <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">Mx.</span>240b</span>; more fully, ἐνὶ πόντῳ νηῒ θοῇ πλείοντες <span class="bibl">Od.16.368</span>; νηῒ… πλέων ἐπὶ οἴνοπα πόντον <span class="bibl">Il.7.88</span>; πλέεν… ποντοπορεύων <span class="bibl">Od.5.278</span>; ἐν τῇ νηΐ <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>341d</span>; <b class="b3">ἐν τῇ θαλάττῃ</b> ib.<span class="bibl">346b</span>; ἐπλέομεν βορέῃ ἀνέμῳ <span class="bibl">Od.14.253</span>; αὔρᾳ <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>691</span> (lyr.): c. acc. cogn., <b class="b3">πλεῖθ' ὑγρὰ κέλευθα</b> [[sail]] the watery ways, <span class="bibl">Od.3.71</span>; πλεῖν τὴν θάλατταν <span class="bibl">And.1.137</span>, <span class="bibl">Lys.6.19</span>, <span class="bibl">Isoc.8.20</span>, <span class="bibl">Antiph.100</span>:—Pass., <b class="b3">τὸ πεπλευσμένον [πέλαγος</b>] <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>6.1.16</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Babr.71.3</span>; πλεῖται ἡ θάλασσα Muson.<span class="title">Fr.</span>18 B p.104 H.; also π. στόλον τόνδε <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span>1038</span>; τοῦ πλοῦ τοῦ πεπλευσμένου <span class="bibl">D. 56.12</span>: metaph., <b class="b3">πλεῖν ὑφειμένῃ δοκεῖ</b>, cf. ὑφίημι 111: prov., ὁ μὴ πεπλευκὼς οὐδὲν ἑόρακεν κακόν <span class="bibl">Posidipp.22</span>; <b class="b3">ἐπὶ γῆς μὴ πλεῖν</b> when on land do not [[be at sea]], i.e. avoid the hazards of tax-farming, etc., Pythag. ap. <span class="bibl">Clem.Al.<span class="title">Strom.</span>5.5.28</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> of ships, <span class="bibl">Il.9.360</span>; νέας ἄμεινον πλεούσας <span class="bibl">Hdt.8.10</span>, etc.; ὑπὸ τριήρους… εὖ πλεούσης ἐπεδιώκοντο <span class="bibl">Th.7.23</span>; ἡ ναῦς ἄριστά μοι ἔπλει <span class="bibl">Lys.21.6</span>; ἔφευγε ταῖς ναυσὶν εὖ πλεούσαις <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>1.6.16</span>; τριήρης ταχὺ π. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Oec.</span>8.8</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> of other things, [[swim]], [[float]], τεύχεα καλὰ… πλῶον καὶ νέκυες <span class="bibl">Il.21.302</span>; δένδρεα... τά οἱ πλώοιεν ἐλαφρῶς <span class="bibl">Od.5.240</span>; [νῆσος] πλέουσα <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.156</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> to [[be conveyed by sea]], [σκῦλα] πλέοντα <span class="bibl">Th.3.114</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> metaph., <b class="b3">ταύτης ἔπι πλέοντες ὀρθῆς</b> while [the ship of] our country bearing us is on an even keel, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>190</span>; <b class="b3">οὐδ' ὅπως ὀρθὴ πλεύσεται</b> (sc. <b class="b3">ἡ πόλις</b>) προείδετο <span class="bibl">D.19.250</span>; πάντα ἡμῖν κατ' ὀρθὸν πλεῖ <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>813d</span>; θεοῦ θέλοντος κἂν ἐπὶ ῥιπὸς πλέοις <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Fr.</span>397</span>; also κέρδους ἕκατι κἂν ἐπὶ ῥιπὸς πλέοι <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pax</span>699</span>. (With <b class="b3">πλε (ϝ) -, πλευ-</b> cf. Skt. [[plávate]] 'float', 'swim', Lat. <b class="b2">pluit;</b> with <b class="b3">πλω-</b> cf. Goth. [[flōdus]] 'river', 'flood', OE. [[flćwan]] 'flow'.)</span>