πίτυς

pitys

pine

Appears 3 times across Homer's epics.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

πίτυς [ῐ], υος, , Ep. dat. pl. πίτυσσιν, A. pine, esp. Pinus Laricio, Corsican pine, π. βλωθρή, τήν τʼ οὔρεσι τέκτονες ἄνδρες ἐξέταμον Il. 13.390; μακρῇσίν τε πίτυσσιν ἰδὲ δρυσίν Od. 9.186; also, Aleppo pine, P. halepensis, Thphr. HP 3.9.5, Nic. Al. 301, Paus. 2.1.3, Gp. 2.8.2 (called π. ἀγρία Thphr. HP 1.9.3, 3.3.1, Paus. 5.6.4); stone pine, P. pinea, Theoc. 5.49, Dsc. 1.69, 72 (π. ἥμερος Paus. 6.9.1); small-seeded pine, P. brutia, π. φθειροποιός Thphr. HP 2.2.6, cf. Plin. HN 16.49; the Isthmian pine was one species, Callix. 2, Plu. 2.675e: prov., πίτυος τρόπον ἐκτρίβειν like a pine, i.e. utterly, because the pine when cut down never grows again, Hdt. 6.37 (but this is attributed to the πεύκη, and not to the πίτυς, by Thphr. HP 3.9.5).
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