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Headword:
Puknê
Adler number: pi,3151
Translated headword: Pykne, Pnyx
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The Athenian assembly[-place] used to be called this.
Clidemus maintains that it acquired the name Pykna through the dwellings [there] being packed tight [
puknoume/nhn].[1]
Greek Original:Puknê: hê tôn Athênaiôn ekklêsia houtôs ekaleito. Kleidêmos de phêsi Puknan onomasthênai dia to tên sunoikêsin puknoumenên einai.
Notes:
Cf. already
pi 1836, and again
pi 3152. For possibly related words see also all the other entries between
pi 3142 and
pi 3155, inclusive. The present entry is abbreviated from Harpokration s.v.
*pukni/, glossing
Hyperides fr. 182 Jensen.
[1]
Clidemus FGrH 323 F7.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 18 December 2000@08:20:21.
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