To fulfil: to fill: to fill vp: to saciate: to comfort: to make perfite: to accomplish: to content or satiffie. Explere aliquem scribendo. Cicero. To satissie and fill one with writing letters to him. Explere & cumulare. Cic. To satissie and fill abundauntly. Explere & satiare. Cic. Explere & saturare. Cic. Quod aliquibus defuit, explere. Ci. To fulsil or make persire, that lacketh in some. Explere animum alicui. Tere. To satissie and content ones minde. Explere animum suum. Terent. To, fulsil his owne minde, to do his owne pleasure. Explere annos ducentos. Plin. To liue ful two hÛdred yeres. Annos triginta explere imperio. Virgil. To raigne full xxx yeares. Luna quater plenis expleuit comibus annum. Ouid. It was foure months. Annos fatales expleuimus. Tibu. Explere auaritiam suam pecunia. Cic. To fill or satiate hys greedle affection with mony. Cicatricem. Plin. To close vp a wound. Consilium. Cæs. To doe that is counsailed: to fultil his purpose. Cupiditates multa opera & immensa explere. Cic. To satisfie lustes, &c. Ad explendam damnationem præsto fuisse. Cice. To be present to the end that there might be a sufficient number of iudges to condemne him. Desyderium alicuius explere. Liu. To satisfie. Supremum diem expleuit. Tacit. He ended his laste day. Explere quatuor digitos longitudine. Plin. To be full fure fingers long. Expectationem desy derij nostri explere. Cic. Famem. Cic. To satissie or slint ones hunger. Ieiunia. Senec. Intemperantiam alicuius. Cic. Dolor expletur lachrymis. Ouid. Sorrowe is satissied with teares. Legiones supplemento aliquo explere. Liuius. To fill vp, or make persite legions with adding moe souldiours. Libidinem suam. Cic. To doe and accomplish his pleasure, to satissie his lust. Mentem expleri nequit. Virg. Miserijs alicuius expleri. Cic. To be satisfied with. Mortalitatem explere. Tacit. To die. Mundum bonis omnibus expleuit Deus. Cicero. Hath filled. Munus explere. Cic. To accomplish his charge and office. Numerum. Cic. To fil vp the number. Numeros in fidibus explere, & conficere versus. Cic. Odium explere. Liuius. To fatisfie and fulfill his hatefull stomacke. Excusatione officium scribendi explere. Cic. With excusing himselfe to satisfie for the omitting of his duetie in writing. Opus alterius explere. Ouid. To make perfite an other mans worke. Partem relictam. Cic. Rimas. Cic. To stoppe and fill vp chinckes. Explere se. Plaut. To fil himselfe with eating. Se largitionibus. Cicer. To fill himselfe with prodigal gifts Sanguine aliquorum non potest expleri crudelitas. Cic. Mollioribus numeris explere sententias. Ci. To fill vp. Sitim diuturnam explere. Cice. To quenche or satisfie a long thirst. Stipendia. Tacit. To make vp stipendes. Vbi aurum ostenderent, quod summam talenti Attici exple ret. Liu. Which was of the full value of a talent. Ad trecentorum summam expleuit. Liui. He made perfite the number of three hundred. Tecta frigoribus exples. Catul. Vitam beatam explere. Cic. To make blisful life perfit. Vrbes explere erroribus. Tibul. Explere, aliquando pro minuere vsurpatur, nam Ex præpositio nonnunquam priuatiua particula est. To make emptie or voide. Virgil. -explebo numerum, reddatque tenebris. I wil diminish the number, and, &c.

I. To fill up, fill full, fill (class.).

A. Lit.: fossam aggere, Caes. B. G. 7, 79 fin.: fossas, id. ib. 82, 3; Dig. 39, 3, 24; cf.: paludem cratibus atque aggere, Caes. B. G. 7, 58, 1: neque inferciens verba, quasi rimas expleat, Cic. Or. 69, 231: vulnera, Plin. 35, 6, 21, 38: cicatrices, id. 36, 21, 42, 156: alopecias, id. 34, 18, 55, 177: bovem strictis frondibus, i. e. to give him his fill, Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 28: se, to fill, cram one's self, Plaut. Curc. 3, 16; Cels. 1, 2 fin.; cf.: edim atque ambabus malis expletis vorem, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 74: ut milites contingant inter se atque omnem munitionem expleant, Caes. B. C. 1, 21, 3: locum (cohortes), i. e. to occupy completely, id. ib. 1, 45, 4: explevi totas ceras quattuor, have filled, written full, Plaut. Curc. 3, 40: deum bonis omnibus explere mundum, Cic. Univ. 3: expleti (voce) oris janua raditur, filled up, Lucr. 4, 532, v. Lachm. ad h. l.: aliquem numerum, Caes. B. C. 3, 4 fin.: numerum, Liv. 5, 10, 10; 24, 11, 4; Verg. A. 6, 545: centurias, to have the full number of votes, Liv. 37, 47, 7: tribus, id. 3, 64, 8: justam muri altitudinem, Caes. B. G. 7, 23, 4: His rebus celeriter id, quod Avarici deperierat, expletur, is filled up, made good, id. ib. 7, 31, 4; Liv. 23, 22, 1: sic explevit, quod utrique defuit, Cic. Brut. 42, 154.—

B. Trop.

1. In gen., to fill up, complete, finish: id autem ejusmodi est, ut additum ad virtutem auctoritatem videatur habiturum et expleturum cumulate vitam beatam, make quite complete, Cic. Fin. 2, 13, 42; cf. damnationem, id. Caecin. 10, 29: partem relictam, id. Off. 3, 7, 34: damna, Liv. 3, 68, 3; cf. id. 30, 5, 5: explet concluditque sententias, Cic. Or. 69, 230; cf.: sententias mollioribus numeris, id. ib. 13, 40: animum gaudio, Ter. And. 2, 2, 2.—

2. In partic.

a. To satisfy, sate, glut, appease a longing, or one who longs (the fig. being that of filling or stuffing with food): quas (litteras Graecas) sic avide arripui quasi diuturnam sitim explere cupiens, Cic. de Sen. 8, 26: famem, Phaedr. 4, 18, 5; cf.: jejunam cupidinem, Lucr. 4, 876: libidines (with satiare), Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 424, 30 (Rep. 6, 1); cf.: explere cupiditates, satiare odium, id. Part. Or. 27, 96: libidinem, id. Cael. 20, 49: odium factis dictisque, Liv. 4, 32, 12; Tac. A. 15, 52: desiderium, Liv. 1, 9, 15: iram, id. 7, 30, 15; cf.: omnem exspectationem diuturni desiderii nostri, Cic. de Or. 1, 47, 205: avaritiam pecuniā, id. Rosc. Am. 52, 150; Tac. H. 2, 13: spem omnium, Just. 22, 8; Liv. 35, 44, 4; Suet. Aug. 75 fin. et saep.: me, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 67; cf.: non enim vereor, ne non scribendo te expleam, Cic. Fam. 2, 1, 1: se caede diu optata, Liv. 31, 24, 11: tantum regem (divitiis), Just. 9, 2: aliquem muneribus, Sall. J. 13, 6; 20, 1; Cic. Phil. 2, 20, 50: omnis suos divitiis, Sall. C. 51, 34: animum suum (amore), Ter. And. 1, 2, 17: animum gaudio, id. ib. 2, 2, 2; cf. id. Hec. 5, 1, 28; 5, 2, 19: corda tuendo, Verg. A. 8, 265; cf.: expleri mentem nequit ardescitque tuendo Phoenissa, id. ib. 1, 713: expletur lacrimis dolor, Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 38: alicujus crudelitatem sanguine, Crassus ap. Cic. de Or. 1, 52, 225.— And reflex.: ut eorum agris expleti atque saturati cum hoc cumulo quaestus decederent, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 42 fin.—Poet.: aliquem alicujus rei (cf. Zumpt, Gram. 463, and v. impleo): animumque explesse juvabit ultricis flammae, to have sated the mind with the fire of revenge, Verg. A. 2, 586.—

b. To fulfil, discharge, execute, perform a duty: amicitiae munus, Cic. Lael. 19, 67: susceptum rei publicae munus, Cic. Prov. Cons. 14, 35: excusatione officium scribendi, id. Fam. 16, 25: mandatum, Dig. 17, 1, 27.—

c. Of time, to complete, finish, bring to a close: tum signis omnibus ad idem principium stellisque revocatis, expletum annum habeto, Cic. Rep. 6, 22 fin.: fatales annos, Tib. 1, 3, 53: quosdam in Aetolia ducentos annos explere, Plin. 7, 48, 49, 154: explebat annum trigesimum, Tac. H. 1, 48.

II. (Ex in privative signif.; v. ex, III. A.). To unload: navibus explebant sese terrasque replebant, i. e. disembarked, exonerabant se, Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 6, 545 (Ann. v. 310 ed. Vahl.).—Hence, ex-plētus, a, um, P. a., full, complete, perfect: quod undique perfectum expletumque sit omnibus suis numeris ac partibus, Cic. N. D. 2, 13, 37: undique expleta et perfecta forma honestatis, id. Fin. 2, 15, 48: ea, quae natura desiderat, expleta cumulataque habere, id. Off. 2, 5, 18: expletum omnibus suis partibus, id. Fin. 3, 9, 32: vita animi corporisque expleta virtutibus, id. ib. 5, 13, 37: expleta rerum comprehensio, id. Ac. 2, 7, 21.—Absol.: parum expleta desiderant, Quint. 9, 4, 116.