- πιθάκνη
- πῐθάκνη, ἡ, [dialect] Att. [full] φῐδάκνη Moer.p.392 P., Phot., [dialect] Lacon. [full] πῐσάκνα Hsch.: ([etym.] 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 [full] πῐθακνίς, ίδος, ἡ, [dialect] Att. [full] φῐδακνίς, Poll.10.74, 131; [var] Dim. [full] πῐθάκνιον, τό, Eub.132, Hyp.Fr.265, Luc.Hist.Conscr.4, etc. (Dim. of πίθος, as πολίχνη of πόλις, Sch.Ar.Eq.l.c.)
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