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|mdlsjtxt=[[πλείων]], [[πλέων]], ονος, ὁ, ἡ, [comp. of [[πολύς]]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> [[more]], larger, [[both]] of [[number]] and [[size]], Hom., etc.; τὸν [[πλείω]] λόγον all [[further]] [[speech]], Soph.; [[πλείω]] τὸν πλοῦν the greater [[part]] of… , Thuc.:—of [[Time]], [[longer]], [[πλείων]] [[χρόνος]] Hdt.; [[πλέων]] νύξ the greater [[part]] of [[night]], Il.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> with the Art., οἱ πλέονες the greater [[number]], like οἱ πολλοί, the [[mass]] or [[crowd]], Hom.; οἱ [[πλεῦνες]] Hdt., etc.; c. gen., τὰς πλεῦνας τῶν γυκαικῶν Hdt.:— the [[many]], the [[people]], opp. to the [[chief]] men, Thuc., etc.:— τὸ [[πλεῖον]] πολέμοιο the greater [[part]] of war, Hom.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> pecul. usages of neut.:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> as a Noun, [[more]], [[πλεῦν]] ἔτι [[τούτου]] Hdt.; τὸ δὲ [[πλέον]] nay, [[what]] is [[more]], Eur., Thuc.:— [[πλέον]] or τὸ [[πλέον]] τινός a [[higher]] [[degree]] of a [[thing]], Soph.; τὸ πλ. τοῦ χρόνου Thuc.:— [[πλέον]] ἔχειν to [[have]] the [[best]] of it, win, [[conquer]], Thuc.; also, like [[πλεονεκτέω]], c. gen., Hdt., etc.; also, [[πλέον]] ποιεῖν Plat.; ἐς πλ. ποιεῖν Soph.; οὐδὲν πλ. πράσσειν, etc., Eur.:— τί [[πλέον]]; [[what]] [[more]], i. e. [[what]] [[good]] or use is it? Ar.; so, οὐδὲν ἦν [[πλέον]] Dem.:— ἐπὶ [[πλέον]] or ἐπίπλεον, as adv., [[more]], [[further]], Hdt., Thuc., etc.; c. gen. [[beyond]], ἐπὶ τὸ πλ. τινὸς [[ἱκέσθαι]] Theocr.; cf. [[περί]] A. III.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> as adv. [[more]], [[rather]], [[πλέον]] ἔφερέ οἱ ἡ [[γνώμη]] his [[opinion]] inclined [[rather]], Hdt.:—also, τὸ [[πλέον]], ionic τὸ [[πλεῦν]], for the [[most]] [[part]], Hdt., etc.; τὸ πλ. = [[μᾶλλον]], Thuc.<br />b. with Numerals, τοξότας πλ. ἢ [[εἴκοσι]] Xen.:—in [[this]] [[sense]] a contr. [[form]] [[πλεῖν]] is used by [[attic]] writers, [[πλεῖν]] ἢ τριάκονθ' ἡμέρας Ar.; [[πλεῖν]] ἢ χιλίας (sc. δραχμάσ) Ar., etc.;—but ἤ is often omitted, as in Lat. [[quam]] [[after]] [[plus]], [[πλεῖν]] ἑξακοσίας Ar.; so, ἔτη γεγονὼς [[πλείω]] [[ἑβδομήκοντα]] annos [[plus]] [[septuaginta]] [[natus]], Plat.:—Comic [[phrase]], [[πλεῖν]] ἢ [[μαίνομαι]] [[more]] [[than]] to [[madness]], Ar.<br />c. the pl. [[πλείω]] is also used like [[πλέον]], Thuc., Dem.

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