πληθύω: Difference between revisions

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