πληθύω: Difference between revisions

|Definition=aor. subj. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> πληθύσῃ <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ti.</span>83e</span>:—intr. form of [[πληθύνω]], to [[be full]] or [[become full]], c. gen., νεκρῶν π. πέδον <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">HF</span>1172</span>; ἡ πόλις π. ἀνδρῶν <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1270a39</span>; <b class="b3">ἡ τοῦ γάλακτος πληθύουσα τροφή</b> ib.<span class="bibl">1336a7</span>: c. dat., πληθύοι αὐτῷ οἶκος παίδων γοναῖς <span class="title">IG</span>12(9).1179.38 (Euboea, ii A.D.): abs., <b class="b3">ἀγορῆς πληθυούσης</b>, v. [[ἀγορά]] IV; ὁ δῆμος ὁ Ἀθηναίων πληθύων <span class="title">IG</span>12.114.26,al., cf. <span class="title">Schwyzer</span> 412 (Elis); of rivers, [[swell]], [[rise]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.19</span>,<span class="bibl">20</span>, etc.:—Med., <b class="b3">ἐπεὰν πληθύεσθαι ἄρχηται ὁ Νεῖλος</b> (v.l. [[πλήθεσθαι]]) ib. <span class="bibl">93</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[increase in number]], [[multiply]], <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>1057</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>678b</span>; [[increase in time]], ὁ πληθύων χρόνος <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>930</span>:—Med., <b class="b3">φῦλον ἐν τῷ ἑνὶ -όμενον</b> [[possessing multiplicity]] in unity, <span class="bibl">Iamb.<span class="title">Myst.</span>1.6</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[abound]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>405a</span>; τινι [[in]] a thing, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>54</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> [[increase]], [[grow]], of the [[σπέρμα]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1335a27</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span> [[spread]], [[prevail]], ὡς ἐπλήθυον λόγοι <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>869</span>; <b class="b3">ὁ πληθύων λόγος</b> the [[current]] story, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>377</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[πληθύνω]] is generally trans., <b class="b3">-ύω</b> intr.; but [[πληθύω]] is trans. in <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>718</span>, <b class="b3">κύναρος ἄκανθα πάντα πληθύει γύην</b>, and [[πληθύομαι]] is Pass. (in signf. [[make]] [[multiple]], '[[plurify]]') in <span class="bibl">Procl.<span class="title">Inst.</span>125</span>, <span class="bibl">Dam.<span class="title">Pr.</span>139</span>: [[πληθύνω]] is intr. in later writers, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mete.</span>351b7</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">GA</span>738a37</span> (in both places with v.l.), <span class="bibl">LXX<span class="title">Ex.</span>1.20</span>, al., [[varia lectio|v.l.]] in <span class="bibl">Nic.Dam.19</span> J., <span class="title">Act.Ap.</span>6.1, <span class="bibl">Hdn. 3.8.8</span>; and [[πληθύομαι]] is Med. in <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.93</span> (s.v.l., v. supr.), and in codd. of <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Supp.</span>604</span>; cf. συμπληθύω. [ἐπλήθῠον <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>421</span>; πληθῡεται dub. in <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Supp.</span>604</span>; quantity of υ elsewh. indeterminate.]</span>