Πύκνωσις
close order, compression
Translated by David Whitehead16 Apr 2010Vetting: high9 revisions
Translation
[sc. can be achieved] by flanker and by rear-ranker. That is, close order by breadth and [by] depth. The 'compressed' man has 2 cubits [sc. distance from the next man], whereas he who is simply deployed [has] 4 cubits.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πύκνωσις κατὰ παραστάτην καὶ ἐπιστάτην. τουτέστι πύκνωσις κατὰ μῆκος καὶ βάθος. κατέχει δὲ ὁ πεπυκνωμένος ἀνὴρ πήχεις βʹ, ὁ δὲ ἁπλῶς ταττόμενος πήχεις δʹ.
Betacode
*pu/knwsis kata\ parasta/thn kai\ e)pista/thn. toute/sti pu/knwsis kata\ mh=kos kai\ ba/qos. kate/xei de\ o( pepuknwme/nos a)nh\r ph/xeis b#, o( de\ a(plw=s tatto/menos ph/xeis d#.
Notes
- The compiler drew this entry verbatim from the Onomasticon tacticon (30), which adapts Aelian, Tactica 11.2-3. (For words related to the headword see also all the other entries between pi 3142 and pi 3155, inclusive.)
For this sense of the nounpu/knwsis , see generally LSJ s.v., III.
See sigma 1448 forsunaspismo/s , where (in this abstract technical literature) each man occupies just one cubit.
Linked from14 entries
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- π3142Πύκαstoutly[Meaning] copiously, carefully.
- π3143ΠύκαζεshutSophocles [writes]: "shut [it] quickly: it's not [the job] of a wise physician to chant incantations over a cutting wound."
- π3144Πυκάζεταιis covered[Meaning he/she/it] is sheltered, is adorned.
- π3145Πυκάζειcrowds, crowns[Meaning he/she/it] covers, shelters. Also [sc. attested is] puka/zousi ['they crowd']: they overshadow, they crown. Also in the Epigrams: "having bathed, Prodoce, let us crown ourselves and let us draw the unmixed…
- π3147Πύκασενcovered[Meaning he/she/it] adorned.
- π3148Πυκασμόςcovering[Meaning] shagginess.
- π3149Πυκινήstout[Meaning] sturdy. It is also used in the sense of 'powerful'. "Sturdy to manage these things."
- π3150Πυκνάζειςyou do [something] frequently, you come frequently[Meaning] you frequent.
- π3151ΠύκνηPykne, PnyxThe 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].
- π3152Πυκνίon the PnyxAs in the [phrase] of Aristophanes: "except not on the Pnyx." Also [sc. attested is] Pyknites; [in the phrase] "Demos of the Pnyx." Pnyx, a place in Athens, where the Athenians used to hold assembly. He spoke of a…
- π3153Πυκνόςstocky, sturdy[Meaning] competent.
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- Note, cross-reference — Philip Rance
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