A.cask or jar, Ar.Pl.546, Ion Trag.10, BCH50.214 (Thasos, v B.C.); used for storing figs, etc., D.30.28, Pl.Com.114, Thphr.Sign.49, OGI483.149 (Pergam., ii A.D.); οἰκεῖν ἐν ταῖς φιδάκναις live in casks, as the poorer Athenians were forced to do during the Peloponn. war, Ar.Eq.792; π. ἰατρική a medicine-jar, Gal.19.115, cf. UP4.3 :—also πι^θακνίς , ίδος, ἡ, Att. φι^δακνίς , Poll.10.74, 131; Dim. πι^θάκνιον , τό, Eub.132, Hyp.Fr.265, Luc.Hist.Conscr.4, etc. (Dim. of πίθος, as πολίχνη of πόλις, Sch.Ar.Eq.l.c.)
πι^θάκνη , ἡ, Att. φι^δάκνη Moer.p.392 P., Phot., Lacon. πι^σάκνα Hsch.: (πίθος) :—
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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