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ἔκπλεος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: ekpleos

Principal Part: ἔκπλεος ἔκπλεη ἔκπλεον

Structure: ἐκπλε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. quite full
  2. complete, abundant

Examples

  • καὶ γὰρ αὐτὰ ταῦτα τὰ κοῖλα αὐτῆς, ὕδατός τε καὶ ἀέρος ἔκπλεα ὄντα, χρώματός τι εἶδος παρέχεσθαι στίλβοντα ἐν τῇ τῶν ἄλλων χρωμάτων ποικιλίᾳ, ὥστε ἕν τι αὐτῆς εἶδος συνεχὲς ποικίλον φαντάζεσθαι. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 888:3)
  • οἶδα γὰρ ὅτι ὥσπερ ἐν ἵπποις οὕτως καὶ ἐν ἀνθρώποις τισὶν ἐγγίγνεται, ὅσῳ ἂν ἔκπλεα τὰ δέοντα ἔχωσι, τοσούτῳ ὑβριστοτέροις εἶναι. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 10 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. quite full

  2. complete

Related

명사

형용사

동사

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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