πιθάκνη

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Menander, Monostichoi, 112
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Transliteration A: pitháknē Transliteration B: pithaknē Transliteration C: pithakni Beta Code: piqa/knh

English (LSJ)

ἡ, Att. φῐδάκνη Moer.p.392 P., Phot., Lacon. πῐσάκνα Hsch.: (πίθος) :—

   A cask or jar, Ar.Pl.546, Ion Trag.10, BCH50.214 (Thasos, v B.C.); used for storing figs, etc., D.30.28, Pl.Com.114, Thphr.Sign.49, OGI483.149 (Pergam., ii A.D.); οἰκεῖν ἐν ταῖς φιδάκναις live in casks, as the poorer Athenians were forced to do during the Peloponn. war, Ar.Eq.792; π. ἰατρική a medicine-jar, Gal.19.115, cf. UP4.3 :—also πῐθακνίς, ίδος, ἡ, Att. φῐδακνίς, Poll.10.74, 131; Dim. πῐθάκνιον, τό, Eub.132, Hyp.Fr.265, Luc.Hist.Conscr.4, etc. (Dim. of πίθος, as πολίχνη of πόλις, Sch.Ar.Eq.l.c.)