A.= πελάζω, bring near, once in Hes., Βορέας . . δρῦς . . πιλνᾷ χθονί brings them to earth, Op.510 ; also intr., δόμοισι πιλνᾷς thou drawest nigh to the house, h.Cer.115 (nisi leg. πίλνασαι) :—elsewh. Pass. πίλνα^μαι (with no act. form πίλνημι), draw near to, approach, c. dat., ἅρματα χθονὶ πίλνατο the chariots went close to the ground, Il. 23.368 ; “ἐπ᾽ οὔδει πίλναται” 19.93, cf. A.R.4.952, Simm.7 : abs. with two subjects, Γαῖα καὶ Οὐρανὸς πίλνατο earth and sky threatened to encounter (in the storm), Hes.Th.703 :—πίτναντο must be read for πίλναντο with Aristarch. and some codd. in Il.22.402 ; conversely πίλναντο for πίτναντο in Euph.63.2.
πιλνάω ,
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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