To sill to the toppe: to sulfill: to swish, or performe: to make vp or supply that lacheth. Complere vlque ad summum. Colum. To fill vp to the top. Aequera fremitu complere. Propert. Atria complerevlulatibus. Ouid. To make the court to ring with howling. Auras complere vlulatibus. Ouid. Aures complere sermonibus. Claud. To fill ones eares: to make weary with talke. Cælum complere clamore. Sen. Lunæ se cornua lumine cõplent. Virg. It waxed ful moone. Plangore & lamenratione complere forum. Cic. Fossas complere. Tacit. To fill ditches. Læto complerant littora cœtu. Virg. They gathered ioyonsly about the sea side. Magno agmine complere locum aliquem. Virg. Querelis complere locum. Lucrer. Vagitu complere loca. Lucrer. To make the place ring with crying. Ingenti clamore mœnia complere. Virg. Nemus o ce complere. Horat. Sedilia complere, Claud. To flill the seates. Terras larga luce Sol complet. Cicer. The sunne spreadeth his light ouer the earth. Renouatione stirpium complentur terræ. Cic. Complere aliquem coronis & floribus. Ci. To set garlands and slowers about one. Clamoribus omnia complere. Lucret. Complere omnia fletu. Cæsar. To make all the place ringe with weeping. Complere omnia corporis odore vini atque vnguenti. Cic. To make all partes of the body sanour of, &c. Completur animus voluptate. Cic. Compleuit annos centum. Cicer. He liued full an himdred yeares. Complere atque ad exitum perducere aliquid. Cicer. To sinish and bring to an ende. Compleuisse fata sua dicitur, qui moritur, vel mortuus est. Ouid. Orbem sol compleuit. Tibul. Seculum complere vitæ. Ouid. To liue an hundrod yares. Venter maturus sua compleuit tempora. Ouid. She was ready to be deliuered of childe. Tempora sua compleuisse. Id est mortuum esse. Ouid. Annuus exactis completur mensibus orbis. Virg. A yeare is past. Complere tres. Claud. To doe as much as three. Complere conuiuium vicinorum. Cicer. To haunt to his neighbours feast: also to bid them to feastes. Complere paginam. Cic. Complere promissum. Cic. To fulfill promise. Summam complere. Cic. To make vp the sumine. Complere hominem bona spe. Cæsar. To put in hope. Complere aliquem terrore vel gaudio. Liu. To put in great feare, &c. Complere cum genitiuo: vt cõplere aliquem flagitij. Plaut. Compleuit illos erroris. Plaut. To bring in a great errour.

I. Lit., of material objects.

A. In gen., with acc. of place, vessel, etc., filled.

(a). Alone: hostes fossam complent, Caes. B. G. 5, 40; Auct. B. Hisp. 16; Tac. H. 2, 25: tune aut inane quicquam putes esse, cum ita conpleta et conferta sint omnia, ut, etc., Cic. Ac. 2, 40, 125: metu, ne compleantur navigia, Liv. 41, 3, 2: deducunt socii navis et litora conplent, Verg. A. 3, 71: conplebant Laidos aedes (amatores), Prop. 2, 6, 1: corpora quae loca complerent, occupy space, Lucr. 1, 522: legiones cum loca Camporum complent, id. 2, 324: milites complent murum, Caes. B. G. 7, 27: vigiles domum Flavii complevere, Tac. H. 3, 69; id. A. 15, 33: scrobem ad medium, Col. Arb. 4, 5: non bene urnam, Ov. M. 12, 616: vascula, Quint. 1, 2, 28: paginam, to fill out, write full, Cic. Att. 13, 34 fin.: speluncas, of the winds, Lucr. 6, 197.—

(b). With abl. of material, etc.: fossas sarmentis et virgultis, Caes. B. G. 3, 18: totum prope caelum... humano genere conpletum est, Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 28: mundum animorum multitudine, id. Div. 2, 58, 119: bestiis omnium gentium circum conplere, Liv. 44, 9, 4: naufragorum trepidatione passim natantium flumen conpleverunt, id. 42, 62, 6: Hispanias Gallias Italiam monumentis ingentium rerum, id. 30, 28, 4: quos (gradus) ubi accusator concitatis hominibus complerat, Cic. Clu. 34, 93: munus Apolline dignum libris, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 217: late loca milite, Verg. A. 2, 495: naves serpentibus, Nep. Hann. 11, 6: amphoras plumbo, id. ib. 9, 3: statuas aëneas pecuniā, id. ib. 9, 3: horrea messibus, Luc. 3, 66: complentur moenia et tecta maerentium turbā, Tac. A. 3, 1: Palatium multitudine et clamoribus complebant, id. ib. 14, 61: virgultibus et cratibus et corporibus exanimis complere lossas, id. ib. 4, 51; cf. also: et terrae... stirpium renovatione complentur, Cic. N. D. 2, 51, 128.—

(g). With gen.: conviviumque vicinorum cottidie conpleo, Cic. Sen. 14, 46: cum completus jam mercatorum carcer esset, id. Verr. 2, 5, 57, 147: quae causa... ararum conpleverit urbis, Lucr. 5, 1162.—

B. Esp.

1. In milit. lang.

a. To make the army, a legion, etc., of a full number, to complete, fill up: legiones in itinere, Caes. B. C. 1, 25: cohortes pro numero militum complet, Sall. C. 56, 1; Nep. Milt. 5, 1: legione completā per maniplos, Sil. 8, 119.—

b. To man, fill with men: classem Romanam sociis navalibus, Liv. 24, 11, 9: naves colonis pastoribusque, Caes. B. C. 1, 56; cf.: has (naves) sagittariis tormentisque compleverunt, id. ib. 2, 4: naves bis denas aut plures, Verg. A. 11, 327 Serv.—

2. To fill, impregnate: alias (mulieres), Lucr. 4, 1249; 4, 1275.—

3. Transf., of light, sound, etc. (freq.).

a. To fill with light, maké full: ut cuncta suā luce conpleat (sol), Cic. Rep. 6, 17, 17: mundum suā luce, id. N. D. 2, 46, 119: terras largā luce, id. ib. 2, 19, 43: orbem (luna), Tib. 2, 4, 18: lunae se cornua lumine complent, Verg. A. 3, 645: quod maria ac terras omnis caelumque rigando Conpleat (sol), Lucr. 5, 595.—

b. To fill with sound, cause to resound, etc., to fill, make full: omnia clamoribus, Lucr. 4, 1014: omnia vocibus, id. 5, 1065: nemus querellis, id. 2, 358; cf.: nemus timendā voce, Hor. Epod. 6, 9: aëra tinnitibus et murmure, Ov. M. 14, 537: atria ululatu, id. ib. 5, 153: atria fremitu, id. ib. 5, 3 et saep.: fremitu aequora, Prop. 2, 16 (3, 8), 37: aures (sonus), Cic. Rep. 6, 18, 18; cf. id. Agr. 3, 1, 3: caelum clamore, Sen. Herc. Oet. 798: aures sermonibus, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olyb. 31: clamor omnia variis terrentium ac paventium vocibus complet, Liv. 5, 21, 11.—

c. Of odors, etc.: omnia primo motu ac spiritu suo, vini, unguenti, corporis odore complesset, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 12, 31; cf. Veg. Vet. 1, 17, 3. —

4. Transf., to cover, overwhelm: Dianam (i. e. simulacrum) coronis et floribus, i. e. to deck, adorn, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 35, 77: vortentibus Telebois telis conplebantur corpora, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 95.—

5. To fill, sate with food or drink: multo cibo et potione, Cic. Tusc. 5, 35, 100: se flore Liberi, Plaut. Cist. 1, 2, 8: haec avis scribitur conchis se solere conplere, Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 124.—

II. Trop.

A. To supply fully, furnish abundantly: exercitum omni copiā, Caes. B. C. 2, 25 fin.—

B. To fill with any notion, story, desire, humor, passion: completi sunt animi auresque vestrae, me... obsistere, etc., Cic. Agr. 3, 1, 3: reliquos (milites) bonā spe, Caes. B. C. 2, 21: aliquem gaudio, Cic. Fin. 5, 24, 69: taedio, Quint. 8, 6, 14: animos robore, Luc. 5, 412: omnia luctu, Sall. C. 51, 9: omnia terrore, Liv. 34, 9, 13: cuncta pavore, Curt. 3, 13, 10 al.—With gen.: aliquem erroris et dementiae, Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 9: aliquem flagitii et formidinis, id. Men. 5, 5, 3.—

C. To make complete or perfect, to finish; of a promise, to fulfil it: lustrationem (annuam) menstruo spatio (luna), Cic. N. D. 1, 31, 87; cf. Verg. A. 5, 46: his rebus completis legiones reduci jussit, Caes. B. C. 3, 46 (Dinter, ex conj., comparatis): nocturnum erat sacrum, ita ut ante mediam noctem conpleretur, Liv. 23, 35, 15: studia, Gell. 13, 5: conplent ea beatissimam vitam, Cic. Fin. 5, 24, 71; cf. id. ib. 3, 13, 43; id. Tusc. 5, 16, 47: summam promissi, id. Verr. 2, 3, 49, 116: rerum humanarum sorte completā, Curt. 10, 6, 6 al.—

2. Of time, to finish, complete: Gorgias centum et septem conplevit annos, Cic. Sen. 5, 13: cum VII. et LXX. annos complesset, Nep. Att. 21, 1: Corvinus centesimum annum complevit, Val. Max. 8, 13, 1; Lact. Op. Dei, 4, 3; cf.: sua fata, Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 77: sua tempora, id. M. 15, 816: quinque saecula vitae suae, id. ib. 15, 395: materna tempora, i. e. the time of pregnancy, id. ib. 3, 312; cf. id. ib. 11, 311: semel quadrigis, semel desultore misso, vix unius horae tempus utrumque curriculum conplebat, Liv. 44, 9, 4.—Hence, complētus, a, um, P. a.

A. Prop., filled full, full: alveus Tiberis ruderibus, Suet. Aug. 30.—

B. Trop., complete, perfect: completus et perfectus verborum ambitus, Cic. Or. 50, 168.— Comp., Gell. 1, 7, 20.