Πλῆντο

they were filled

Translated by Catharine Roth25 Apr 2006Vetting: high3 revisions

2 notes · 27 words
[Meaning] they were being made full.1
"He went with full sails into his philosophy."2 Meaning with all his strength, with all his power, with his whole soul.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πλῆντο· ἐπληροῦντο. πλήρεσιν ἱστίοις εἰς τὴν αὐτοῦ φιλοσοφίαν ἀφῆκεν. ἀντὶ τοῦ παντὶ σθένει, πάσῃ δυνάμει, ὅλῃ ψυχῇ.

Betacode
*plh=nto: e)plhrou=nto. plh/resin i(sti/ois ei)s th\n au)tou= filosofi/an a)fh=ken. a)nti\ tou= panti\ sqe/nei, pa/sh| duna/mei, o(/lh| yuxh=|.

Notes (2)

  1. 1The headword is epic aorist middle, third person plural, of pi/mplhmi; cf. the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 8.57, where it occurs. ↩
  2. 2Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 1.25.5, quoted already at iota 689; contains an adjective related to the headword verb. ↩

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π1756Πλῆμναιnavesπ1757Πλήνexceptπ1758Πλῆντοthey were filledπ1759Πλήρηςfullπ1760ΠληρῶI fill
Revision history3 revisions · last 5 Jul 2014
  1. typo, expanded note — Catharine Roth
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. augmented n.1; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  4. Translated — Catharine Roth

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