ἐμπλῆσαι (emplesai)

ἐμπλῆσαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἐμπίπλημι, meaning “fill up”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

It can also be a form of ἐμπλέω, “sail in”.

Found 33 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.6.31: … καὶ ὄρθρου λέγων ἐπὶ τὸν ἐρώμενον ἀπιέναι ὁπότε βούλοιτο ἀναγνῶναι. τόν τε Πίνδαρον ἔφασκε δεινὸν εἶναι φωνῆς ἐμπλῆσαι καὶ ὀνομάτων καὶ ῥημάτων εὐπορίαν παρασχεῖν. Ἴωνα δὲ καὶ ἐχαρακτήριζε νέος ὤν.

Arrian, Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις 3.29.4: … όθεν μετίοιεν ὅσα ἐς γεφύρωσιν τοῦ πόρου. ξυναγαγὼν οὖν τὰς διφθέρας, ὑφʼ αἷς ἐσκήνουν οἱ στρατιῶται, φορυτοῦ ἐμπλῆσαί ἐκέλευσεν ὡς ξηροτάτου καὶ καταδῆσαί τε καὶ ξυρράψαι ἀκριβῶς, τοῦ μὴ ἐσδύεσθαι ἐς αὐτὰς τοῦ ὕδατος. ἐμπλησθεῖ …

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.