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πλοῦτος , ὁ,
A.wealth, riches, “ἄφενος καὶ πλοῦτον ἀφύξειν” Il.1.171; “ὄλβῳ τε πλούτῳ τε” 16.596; “π. ἀρεταῖς δεδαιδαλμένος” Pi.O.2.53; opp. πενία, Pl.R.421d; “ἀνατετροφέναι πλοῦτον” And.1.131: pl., “τῶν γὰρ π. ὁδ᾽ ἄριστος” treasures, E.Fr.137 (anap.); “πλούτοις καὶ πενίαις” Pl.R.618b; “γένη καὶ πλοῦτοι” Id.Grg.523c, cf. Prt.354b, etc.: c. gen. rei, π. ἀργύρου, χρυσοῦ, treasure of silver or gold, Hdt.2.121.ά, Anacreont.34.1; “οὔτε ἀργυροῦς π.οὔτε χρυσοῦς” Pl.Lg.801b; ἀφανὴς π., opp. γῆ, Ar.Ec.602.
2. metaph., “πραπίδων π.” Emp.129.2; “π. τῆς σοφίας” Pl.Euthphr.12a; γᾶς π. ἄβυσσος, of the whole earth, A.Th.948 (lyr.); “πλοῦτον εἵματος κακόν” Id.Ag.1383; “ὁ ἐν τῇ ἐμῇ ψυχῇ π.” X.Smp.4.43, cf. 34, etc.
II. masc. pr. n. Plutus, god of riches, Hes.Th.969; represented as blind, Timocr.8; “ὁ δὲ Π. ἡμᾶς . . τυφλοὺς ποιεῖ” Antiph.259:—Hsch. s.v. εὔπλουτον says that π. originally meant wealth in corn. (Prob. from πλέω in an early sense '*flow', '*abound', as φόρτος from φέρω.）
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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