πεφυκέναι (c. infin.). [66] 16, [70] 3, [104] 16, etc. To have a gift for, a liking for. Lat. solere, amare.
πεφυλαγμένως. [148] 1. Guardedly. Lat. caute. The word is used in the Attic period by Xenophon and Isocrates.
πιέζειν. [144] 21, [148] 16, [220] 18, [230] 12. To close tight, to compress. Lat. comprimere.
πιθανός. [98] 17, 20, [100] 17, [120] 21. Attractive, plausible. Lat. probabilis, verisimilis.
πικρός. [232] 15. Bitter, harsh. Lat. acerbus. So πικραίνειν [130] 19, [154] 13, [216] 17.
πίνος. [120] 23, [136] 16, [212] 24, [236] 8. Mellowing deposit, tinge of antiquity, flavour of archaism. Lat. antiquitas, antiquitas impexa (Tac. Dial. c. 20), nitor obsoletus (Auct. ad Her. iv. 4. 46). There is a suggestion of négligé or abandon about the word, but on the whole it is not uncomplimentary: cp. Ep. ad Pomp. c. 2 ὅ τε πίνος ὁ τῆς ἀρχαιότητος ἠρέμα αὐτῇ καὶ λεληθότως ἐπιτρέχει, and de Demosth. c. 38 ἀλλ’ [ἵνα] ἐπανθῇ τις αὐταῖς χνοῦς ἀρχαιοπινὴς καὶ χάρις ἀβίαστος. The compound εὐπίνεια is found in Long. de Subl. xxx. 1. There is a scholium (preserved in M) on [120] 23, which is, unfortunately, vague and uncertain: πῖνος κυρίως ὁ ῥύπος, ἀφ’ οὗ πιναρὰ ῥάκη. λέγεται δὲ καὶ τὸ ἐπανθοῦν τισὶ χνοῶδες ὡς ἐπὶ μήλων καὶ ἀπίων. ἀπὸ τούτου καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ λόγου τὸ ἐπιφαινόμενον αὐτῷ ἐν τῇ συνθήκῃ τῆς λέξεως ποιὸν πίνον ὀνομάζει. ἔστι δὲ πῖνος καὶ ὄνομα τόπου.
πλάγιος. [106] 20. Oblique. Lat. obliquus (casus).
πλανᾶσθαι. [254] 16, [270] 18. To wander, to be irregular. Lat. vagari. Used in reference to vague, elastic metre. So περιπεπλανημένα μέτρα in de Demosth. c. 50.
πλάσμα. [90] 6, [118] 24. Cast, form. Lat. imago, forma dicendi. Cp. Ep. ad Pomp. c. 4 ὕψος δὲ καὶ κάλλος καὶ μεγαλοπρέπειαν καὶ τὸ λεγόμενον ἰδίως πλάσμα ἱστορικὸν Ἡρόδοτος ἔχει (viz. “elevation, beauty, stateliness, and what is specifically called the ‘historical vein’”); Long. de Subl. xv. 8 ποιητικὸν τοῦ λόγου καὶ μυθῶδες τὸ πλάσμα (the ‘form’). In de Demosth. c. 34 πλάσμα seems to have the same meaning as χαρακτῆρ in c. 33 ibid. [The musical meaning of moulded delivery, modulation does not emerge in the C.V.]