καταπυκνόω: Difference between revisions

|Definition=<span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">stud thickly</b>, τρήμασι τὸ τεῖχος <span class="bibl">Plb.8.5.6</span>; θύρας ἥλοις <span class="bibl">D.S.18.71</span>; τοῖς ἀφώνοις τὰς συλλαβάς <span class="bibl">D.H.<span class="title">Comp.</span>16</span>; παραδειγμάτων πλήθει τὴν πόλιν <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Lyc.</span>27</span>; τοῖς ὑπερβατοῖς Phld.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1.160 S.:—Pass., of the sky, καταπεπυκνῶσθαι . . πλήθει ἀστέρων <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mete.</span>346a29</span>; of a country, <b class="b3">ἐλαίαις καταπεπυκνῶσθαι</b> <b class="b2">to be thickly planted with . .</b> (v.l. for [[-πεφυτεῦσθαι]]), <span class="bibl">D.S. 3.44</span>: metaph., βίος ἐν θαλίαις -πεπυκνωμένος <span class="bibl">Porph.<span class="title">Plot.</span>23</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">force into a small compass, compress, condense</b>, Ἐπίκουρος οὕτω κατεπύκνου τὴν ἡδονήν <span class="bibl">Damox.2.62</span>; <b class="b3">τάλαντ' ἐγώ σοι κατεπύκνωσα τέτταρα</b> <b class="b2">spent</b> four talents <b class="b2">in a lump</b>, ib.<span class="bibl">4</span>; to illustrate this is cited the dogma of <span class="bibl">Epicur., <span class="title">Sent.</span>9</span>, <b class="b3">εἰ κατεπυκνοῦτο πᾶσα ἡδονὴ κτλ</b>., cf. καταπύκνωσις; ὁ Λυκοῦργος τοὺς πολίτας τῇ σιωπῇ πιέζων συνῆγε καὶ κατεπύκνου Plu.2.510f:—Pass., -πεπύκνωται ἡ πραγματεία <span class="bibl">Porph. <span class="title">Plot.</span>14</span>; also <b class="b3">εἰ μὴ -πυκνοῦταί σοι τὸ ἀπὸ δογμάτων ὀρθῶν ἕκαστα πράσσειν</b> that your <b class="b2">habit</b> of acting . . <b class="b2">is</b> not <b class="b2">consolidated</b>, <span class="bibl">M.Ant.5.9</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> in Music, <b class="b3">κ. τὸ διάγραμμα</b> <b class="b2">fill up</b> the intervals in a scale (with smaller intervals), <span class="bibl">Aristox.<span class="title">Harm.</span>p.7</span> M.:—Pass., Theo Sm.<span class="bibl">p.91</span> H., <span class="bibl">Nicom. <span class="title">Exc.</span>7</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> Pass., <b class="b2">to be condensed</b>, of complex forms of inference (cf. [[πυκνόω]] v), <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">APo.</span>79a30</span>.</span>