πιθάκνη: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, Att. φῐδάκνη Moer.<span class="bibl">p.392</span> P., Phot., Lacon. πῐσάκνα Hsch.: (πίθος) :—<span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[cask]] or [[jar]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pl.</span>546</span>, Ion Trag.<span class="bibl">10</span>, <span class="title">BCH</span>50.214 (Thasos, v B.C.); used for storing figs, etc., <span class="bibl">D.30.28</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.Com.114</span>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Sign.</span>49</span>, <span class="title">OGI</span>483.149 (Pergam., ii A.D.); <b class="b3">οἰκεῖν ἐν ταῖς φιδάκναις</b> live in [[casks]], as the poorer Athenians were forced to do during the Peloponn. war, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>792</span>; <b class="b3">π. ἰατρική</b> a medicine-[[jar]], Gal.19.115, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">UP</span>4.3</span> :—also πῐθακνίς, ίδος, ἡ, Att. φῐδακνίς, <span class="bibl">Poll.10.74</span>, <span class="bibl">131</span>; Dim. πῐθάκνιον, τό, <span class="bibl">Eub.132</span>, <span class="bibl">Hyp.<span class="title">Fr.</span>265</span>, <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Hist.Conscr.</span>4</span>, etc. (Dim. of [[πίθος]], as <b class="b3">πολίχνη</b> of <b class="b3">πόλις</b>, Sch.Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>l.c.)</span>