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ἔκπλεος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔκπλεος ἔκπλεη ἔκπλεον

Structure: ἐκπλε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. quite full
  2. complete, abundant

Examples

  • αὖθισ οὖν καθ’ ἑτέραν ὁδὸν ἀπαντῶν ὁ Φάβιοσ τῷ Σκηπίωνι κατεκώλυε τοὺσ ὁρμωμένουσ αὐτῷ συστρατεύεσθαι τῶν νέων καὶ κατεῖχεν, ἔν τε ταῖσ βουλαῖσ καὶ ταῖσ ἐκκλησίαισ βοῶν ὡσ οὐκ αὐτὸσ Ἀννίβαν ἀποδιδράσκοι μόνοσ ὁ Σκηπίων, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν ὑπόλοιπον ἐκπλέοι λαβὼν δύναμιν ἐκ τῆσ Ἰταλίασ, δημαγωγῶν ἐλπίσι τοὺσ νέουσ καὶ ἀναπείθων ἀπολιπεῖν γονέασ καὶ γυναῖκασ καὶ πόλιν, ἧσ ἐν θύραισ ἐπικρατῶν καὶ ἀήττητοσ ὁ πολέμιοσ κάθηται. (Plutarch, Fabius Maximus, chapter 26 1:1)
  • ἐσελθών γε μὴν καὶ πλέων κατὰ τὸν Εὐφράτην ἐπὶ ποταμὸν Παλλακότταν, ὃσ τὸν Εὐφράτην ὑπολαμβάνων ἐσ ἕλη καὶ λίμνασ ἐκφέρει καὶ κωλύει τὴν Ἀσσυρίδα γῆν ἄρδειν,‐‐ἐπινοοῦντα δὴ τοῦτον διατειχίσαι τὸν ποταμὸν καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦτο ἐκπλέοντά φασιν ἐπιτωθάσαι τοῖσ Χαλδαίοισ, ὅτι σῶοσ ἐσ Βαβυλῶνα ἐσέλθοι τε καὶ ἐκπλέοι. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 21 5:8)

Synonyms

  1. quite full

  2. complete

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

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