[Remark: this dictionary entry has no valid XML/HTML content in database so a text version of this entry is shown.]: <b><G>puqmh/n</G></b>, <G>e)/nos</G>: <i>bottom</i> of a vase, <i>trunk, butt</i> of a tree, Il. 11.635, Od. 13.122, 372. <figure n=102></figure>
of a family, A.Ch.260, Supp.106 (lyr.); σμικροῦ γένοιτ' ἂν σπέρματος μέγας π., i.e. great things might come from small, Id.Ch.204; πυθμένες θάλλουσιν ἐσθλῶνB.5.198; π. δικῶν, of a litigious person, Com.Adesp. 896. III. in Arithmetic,
base
of a series, i.e.
lowest number possessing a given property
, π. ὁ δέκα (of the numbers such that the previous integers contain an equal number of primes and non-primes) Speus. ap. Theol.Ar.62; ἐπίτριτος π. the
first
couple of numbers giving the ratio 4:3, Pl.R.546c, cf. Nicom.Ar.1.21, 2.19. [ῠ in A. ll. cc.; ῡ by position in Ep., etc.] (Cf. Skt.