πληθύω

A. πληθύσῃ Pl. Ti. 83e:—intr. form of πληθύνω, to be or become full, c. gen., νεκρῶν π. πέδον E. HF 1172; ἡ πόλις π. ἀνδρῶν Arist. Pol. 1270a39; ἡ τοῦ γάλακτος πληθύουσα τροφή ib.1336a7: c. dat., πληθύοι αὐτῷ οἶκος παίδων γοναῖς IG 12(9).1179.38 (Euboea, ii A.D.): abs., ἀγορῆς πληθυούσης, v. ἀγορά IV; ὁ δῆμος ὁ Ἀθηναίων πληθύων IG 12.114.26,al., cf. Schwyzer 412 (Elis); of rivers, swell, rise, Hdt. 2.19,20, etc.:—Med., ἐπεὰν πληθύεσθαι ἄρχηται ὁ Νεῖλος (v.l. πλήθεσθαι) ib. 93.

2. increase in number, multiply, A. Ch. 1057, Pl. Lg. 678b; increase in time, ὁ πληθύων χρόνος S. OC 930:—Med., φῦλον ἐν τῷ ἑνὶ ‐όμενον possessing multiplicity in unity, Iamb. Myst. 1.6.

3. abound, Pl. R. 405a; τινι in a thing, S. Tr. 54.

4. increase, grow, of the σπέρμα, Arist. Pol. 1335a27.

5. spread, prevail, ὡς ἐπλήθυον λόγοι A. Ag. 869; ὁ πληθύων λόγος the current story, S. OC 377.

II. πληθύνω is generally trans., ‐ύω intr.; but πληθύω is trans. in S. Fr. 718, κύναρος ἄκανθα πάντα πληθύει γύην, and πληθύομαι is Pass. (in signf. make multiple, 'plurify') in Procl. Inst. 125, Dam. Pr. 139: πληθύνω is intr. in later writers, Arist. Mete. 351b7, GA 738a37 (in both places with v.l.), LXX Ex. 1.20, al., v.l. in Nic.Dam. 19 J. Act.Ap. 6.1, Hdn. 3.8.8; and πληθύομαι is Med. in Hdt. 2.93 (s.v.l., v. supr.), and in codd. of A. Supp. 604; cf. συμπληθύω. [ἐπλήθυον A. Pers. 421; πληθυεται dub. in Id. Supp. 604; quantity of υ elsewh. indeterminate.]