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πιλέω

πιλέω, to compress

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πιληθεῖσα aorist passive participle feminine nominative singular, aorist passive participle feminine vocative singular of πιλέω

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πῑλ-έω, (πῖλος)
  • = πιλόω (which is rejected by EM 672.12), compress wool, make it into felt, πιληθεὶς πέτασος a felt hat, AP 6.282 (Theod.).
    • 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. 16.333 (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. BJ 6.1.6; 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. HA 622a16 (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.

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