A.stud thickly, “τρήμασι τὸ τεῖχος” Plb.8.5.6; “θύρας ἥλοις” D.S.18.71; “τοῖς ἀφώνοις τὰς συλλαβάς” D.H.Comp.16; “παραδειγμάτων πλήθει τὴν πόλιν” Plu.Lyc.27; “τοῖς ὑπερβατοῖς” Phld.Rh.1.160 S.:—Pass., of the sky, “καταπεπυκνῶσθαι . . πλήθει ἀστέρων” Arist.Mete.346a29; of a country, ἐλαίαις καταπεπυκνῶσθαι to be thickly planted with . . (v.l. for -πεφυτεῦσθαι), D.S. 3.44: metaph., “βίος ἐν θαλίαις -πεπυκνωμένος” Porph.Plot.23.
II. force into a small compass, compress, condense, “Ἐπίκουρος οὕτω κατεπύκνου τὴν ἡδονήν” Damox.2.62; τάλαντ᾽ ἐγώ σοι κατεπύκνωσα τέτταρα spent four talents in a lump, ib.4; to illustrate this is cited the dogma of Epicur., Sent.9, εἰ κατεπυκνοῦτο πᾶσα ἡδονὴ κτλ., cf. “καταπύκνωσις; ὁ Λυκοῦργος τοὺς πολίτας τῇ σιωπῇ πιέζων συνῆγε καὶ κατεπύκνου” Plu.2.510f:—Pass., “-πεπύκνωται ἡ πραγματεία” Porph. Plot.14; also εἰ μὴ -πυκνοῦταί σοι τὸ ἀπὸ δογμάτων ὀρθῶν ἕκαστα πράσσειν that your habit of acting . . is not consolidated, M.Ant.5.9.
2. in Music, κ. τὸ διάγραμμα fill up the intervals in a scale (with smaller intervals), Aristox.Harm.p.7 M.:—Pass., Theo Sm.p.91 H., Nicom. Exc.7.
III. Pass., to be condensed, of complex forms of inference (cf. πυκνόω v), Arist.APo.79a30.