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πληροῦσθαι (plerousthai)

πληροῦσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of πληρόω, meaning “fill, man (a ship)”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Alexander 4.2: … στα καὶ τὸ πρόσωπον, ὅτι δὲ τοῦ χρωτὸς ἥδιστον ἀπέπνει καὶ τὸ στόμα κατεῖχεν εὐωδία καὶ Τὴν σάρκα πᾶσαν, ὥστε πληροῦσθαι τοὺς χιτωνίσκους, ἀνέγνωμεν ἐν ὑπομνήμασιν Ἀριστοξενείοις.

Strabo, Geography 5.3.13: … πλησίον, πελαγίας τὸ μέγεθος· χρῶνται δʼ αὐτῇ μάλιστα μὲν Μαρσοὶ καὶ πάντες οἱ πλησιόχωροι. φασὶ δʼ αὐτὴν καὶ πληροῦσθαί ποτε μέχρι τῆς ὀρεινῆς καὶ ταπεινοῦσθαι πάλιν ὥστʼ ἀναψύχειν τοὺς λιμνωθέντας τόπους καὶ γεωργεῖσθαι παρέχειν …

All forms of πληρόω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.