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καταπυκν-όω

katapuknoo

stud thickly

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καταπυκν-όω · katapykn-oō — LSJ

stud thickly, to be thickly planted with

stud thickly, τρήμασι τὸ τεῖχος Plb. 8.5.6; θύρας ἥλοις D.S. 18.71; τοῖς ἀφώνοις τὰς συλλαβάς D.H. Comp. 16; παραδειγμάτων πλήθει τὴν πόλιν Plu. Lyc. 27; τοῖς ὑπερβατοῖς Phld. Rh. 1.160 S.:—Pass., of the sky, καταπεπυκνῶσθαι . . πλήθει ἀστέρων Arist. Mete. 346a29; of a country, ἐλαίαις καταπεπυκνῶσθαι to be thickly planted with . . (v.l. for -πεφυτεῦσθαι), D.S. 3.44: metaph., βίος ἐν θαλίαις -πεπυκνωμένος Porph. Plot. 23.

II force into a small compass, compress, condense, spent, in a lump, habit, is, consolidated

force into a small compass, compress, condense, Ἐπίκουρος οὕτω κατεπύκνου τὴν ἡδονήν Damox. 2.62; τάλαντʼ ἐγώ σοι κατεπύκνωσα τέτταρα spent four talents in a lump, ib. 4; to illustrate this is cited the dogma of Epicur., Sent. 9, εἰ κατεπυκνοῦτο πᾶσα ἡδονὴ κτλ., cf. καταπύκνωσις; ὁ Λυκοῦργος τοὺς πολίτας τῇ σιωπῇ πιέζων συνῆγε καὶ κατεπύκνου Plu. Garr. 2.510f:—Pass., -πεπύκνωται ἡ πραγματεία Porph. Plot. 14; also εἰ μὴ -πυκνοῦταί σοι τὸ ἀπὸ δογμάτων ὀρθῶν ἕκαστα πράσσειν that your habit of actin

2 fill up

in Music, κ. τὸ διάγραμμα fill up the intervals in a scale (with smaller intervals), Aristox. Harm. p.7 M.:—Pass., Theo Sm. p.91 H., Nicom. Exc. 7.

III to be condensed

Pass., to be condensed, of complex forms of inference (cf. πυκνόω v), Arist. APo. 79a30.

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