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Headword:
*pnu/c
Adler number: pi,1836
Translated headword: Pnyx
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. The place of the Athenian] assembly. [sc. Named] from the tight packing of the stones. Or from the crowding of the men in the assembly.
Greek Original:*pnu/c: e)kklhsi/a. para\ th\n tw=n li/qwn pukno/thta. h)\ a)po\ tou= puknou=sqai tou\s a)/ndras e)n th=| e)kklhsi/a|.
Note:
From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 20, where the headword occurs; similar material in other
scholia and lexica. See also
pi 1835,
pi 1837,
pi 3152. As is explained there (though not here), the declension of the noun Pnyx was often Pykn- rather than Pnyk-, which lent itself to the etymologies suggested here.
OCD4 s.v.
Keywords: architecture; comedy; constitution; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; politics; science and technology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 15 December 2000@06:52:52.
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