A.bottom of a jar, cup, or other vessel, τὸν πύνδακα εἰσκρούειν knock in the bottom so as to make the cup hold less, a trick of wine-sellers, Pherecr.105; μέτρῳ τὸν πύνδακα εἰσκεκρουμένῳ μετρεῖν prob. in Thphr.Char.30.11 (ἐκκεκρ- codd., and so “ἐκκρουσαμένους τοὺς π.” Ar.Fr.270 codd. Poll.), cf. Arist.Pr.938a13; bottom of a ship, Mim.Oxy.413.103.
πύνδαξ , α^κος, ὁ, (cf. πυθμήν)
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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