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|mdlsjtxt=[[πέπηγα]] is [[generally]] used as perf. [[pass]].]<br />Radical [[sense]], to make [[fast]]; intr. and Pass. to be [[solid]] :<br /><b class="num">I.</b> to [[stick]] or fix in, ἐν δὲ μετώπωι [[πῆξε]] [τὴν αἰχμήν] Il.; π. ἐπὶ τύμβωι [[ἐρετμόν]] Od.:— to fix in the [[earth]], [[plant]], Soph.; σκηνὴν π. to [[pitch]] a [[tent]], Plat.; (so Mid., σκηνὰς [[πήξασθαι]] to [[pitch]] [[their]] tents, Hdt.):—intr. perf. and Pass., [[δόρυ]] δ' ἐν κραδίηι ἐπεπήγει the [[spear]] stuck [[fast]] in his [[heart]], Il.; ὀϊστοὶ πῆχθεν ἐν [[χροΐ]] Il.; [[ξίφος]] πέπηγεν ἐν γῆι Soph.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> to [[stick]] or fix on, κεφαλὴν ἀνὰ σκολόπεσσι π. to [[stick]] the [[head]] on stakes, Il., etc.: —Pass., πηχθέντας [[μέλη]] ὀβελοῖσι having [[their]] limbs [[fixed]] on spits, Eur.; παγέντες [[impaled]], Aesch.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> to fix the eyes [[upon]] an [[object]], κατὰ χθονὸς ὄμματα π. Il.; ὄμματα [[πέπηγε]] πρός τι Plat.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> to [[fasten]] [[together]], [[construct]], [[build]], [[νῆας]] [[πῆξαι]] Il.; so Mid., ἄμαξαν [[πήξασθαι]] to [[build]] [[oneself]] a wagon, Hes.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> to make [[solid]], [[stiff]], [[hard]], of liquids, to [[freeze]], θεὸς πήγνυσι πᾶν [[ῥέεθρον]] Aesch.; ἔπηξε (sc. ὁ θεὸς) τοὺς ποταμούς Ar.:—intr. perf. and Pass. to [[become]] [[solid]], [[stiff]] or [[hard]], [[γοῦνα]] πήγνυται the limbs [[stiffen]], Il.; of liquids, to [[become]] [[congealed]], [[freeze]], Hdt.; [[ἅλες]] πήγνυνται the [[salt]] crystallises, Hdt.; [[κρύσταλλος]] ἐπεπήγει οὐ [[βέβαιος]] was not [[frozen]] [[strong]], Thuc.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> metaph. to fix, Lat. pangere [[foedus]], intr. perf. and Pass. to be [[irrevocably]] [[fixed]], established, εἷς [[ὅρος]] [[ἡμῖν]] παγήσεται Thuc.; μὴ γὰρ ὡς θεῶι νομίζετ' ἐκείνωι τὰ παρόντα πεπηγέναι πράγματα ἀθάνατα Dem.

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