The corpus record

ἐμπλέω

empleo

sail in, float in, upon

Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Against Aristogeiton 2 1 · 5.95/10k
Economics 1 · 0.56/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ἐμπλέω · empleō — LSJ

sail in

sail in, [πλοίοις] Hdt. 7.184: abs., οἱ ἐμπλέοντες Th. 3.77, X. Oec. 8.8.

2 float in, upon, loose

in Ion. form ἐμ-πλώω, float in or upon, Nic. Al. 426, Opp. H. 1.260 (ἐνιπ-), Aret. SD 1.9, 2.1: part. ἐμπλέων loose, πῶρος Heliod. ap. Orib. 45.6.8.

Pass., of the sea, πελάγη ναυσὶν ἐμπλεόμενα Ph. 1.28, cf. 2.514.

In the wild

ἐμπλέουσι · empleousi Demosthenes, Against Aristogeiton 2 3 (DIORISIS sentence 5)
ἐνέπλευσαν · enepleusan Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.8 (DIORISIS sentence 1597)
ἐνέπλεον · enepleon Herodotus, Histories 7.184.5 (DIORISIS sentence 8142)
ἐμπλέουσι · empleousi Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.55.1 (DIORISIS sentence 930)
ἐμπλέοντες · empleontes Thucydides, History 3.77.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2248)
ἐμπλέοντες · empleontes Xenophon, Economics 8.8 (DIORISIS sentence 418)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Ask the librarian

Ask about ἐμπλέω →