Name of a people.
*pudnai/ous: o)/noma e)/qnous.
That of the citizens of
Pydna, a city on the NE coast of Balkan Greece; Barrington Atlas map 50 grid C4. (Particularly famous as the site of the battle, in 168 BCE, which saw the Roman take-over of the Macedonian monarchy: see generally OCD4 s.v.)
For
Pydna/Pydnaians in the Suda cf.
tau 566.
In the present entry the name is in the accusative case and so evidently quoted from somewhere, e.g.
Theopompus FGrH 115 F30a; alternatively, extracted from
tau 566.
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