πλῆθος: Difference between revisions

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|mdlsjtxt=[[πλῆθος]], ος, εος, τό, [[πίμπλημι]]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> a [[great]] [[number]], a [[throng]], [[crowd]], [[multitude]], Il., Hdt., etc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> τὸ [[πλῆθος]], the greater [[number]], the greater [[part]], the [[mass]], [[main]] [[body]], Hdt., Xen., etc.:— the [[majority]], the [[people]], like [[δῆμος]], Lat. [[plebs]], Hdt., [[attic]]: —also the [[populace]], mob, Xen.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> [[quantity]] or [[number]], Hdt., [[attic]]; πλήθει παρόντες in [[force]], Thuc.: —absol. in acc., κόσοι [[πλῆθος]] Hdt.; [[πλῆθος]] ἀνάριθμοι Aesch.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> [[magnitude]], [[size]] or [[extent]], [[ὄρος]] πλήθεϊ μέγιστον Hdt.; [[πεδίον]] [[πλῆθος]] ἄπειρον Hdt., etc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[quantity]] or [[amount]], Thuc., Plat., etc.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> of [[Time]], [[length]], Thuc., etc.<br /><b class="num">V.</b> with Preps., or with ὡς, in adv. [[sense]], ἐς πλ. in [[great]] numbers, Thuc.: —ὡς πλήθει [[upon]] the [[whole]], in [[general]], Plat.; so, ὡς ἐπὶ τὸ πλ. [[usually]], [[mostly]], Lat. ut [[plurimum]], Plat.

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