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II. generally, compress, close up, “πιλοῦντες ἑαυτούς” Ar. Lys.577 ; “πιλήσαντες τοὺς λόχους” D.H.9.58; make firm or solid, π. καὶ πυκνοῦν τὴν σάρκα, τὸ σῶμα, Gal.11.758,394; “τρίψει . . π. τὸ δέρμα” Id.6.417 :—Pass., to be close pressed, “διὰ τὸ πολὺ εἰς ὀλίγον πιληθῆναι τόπον” Arist.Mete.366b13 ; χθὼν . . οὔπω πιληθεῖσα made solid, A.R.4.678; “ὕδατι πιληθεῖσα μᾶζα” kneaded, APl.4.333 (Antiphil.); to be condensed, [“σελήνην] νέφος εἶναι πεπιλημένον” Xenoph. ap. Placit.2.25.4 ; of air, Hero Spir.1 Praef.; of a man, “παγκρατιαστὴς ὑπὸ τῆς πυκνότητος σαρκῶν πεπιλημένος” Ph.2.449, cf. Porph.Chr.35 ; ἰσχνός, τὴν σάρκα πεπιλ. J.BJ6.1.6 ; τοῖς χείλεσι πιλουμένοις compressed, Sch.D.T.p.43 H.

2. π. πουλύπουν pound a polypus so as to make it tender, “πουλύπου πιλουμένου” Ar.Fr.191 ; “π. πλεκτάνας” Eub.150.7, cf. Arist. HA622a16 (Pass.), Zen.3.24.

3. metaph. in Pass., to be oppressed, overwhelmed, “κακοῖς” Hegesias ap.D.H.Comp.18 ; “τῷ θανάτῳ πεπιλημένος” Agath.5.3.

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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