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Pnyx
[ niks, puh-niks ]
noun
- a hill in Athens, Greece, near the Acropolis: the place of assembly in ancient Athens.
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Pnyx, niks, n. in ancient Athens, the public place of meeting for deliberation on political affairs: the assembly.
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I was on the Pnyx; had been rambling about there the whole afternoon.
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Tell Lister I shall be very pleased to see him if he will look me up at the Pnyx when he is next in town.
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He went to the Pnyx on the chance of finding Saltram there, and failing in that, ate his solitary dinner in the coffee-room.
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The remains on the Pnyx and its neighbourhood cannot all be assigned to one epoch, the prehistoric age.
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