πίσσᾰ,
Attic dialect πίττᾰ, ἡ, pitch, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.277, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.195, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hecale” 1.4.4, etc.: _genitive_ _plural_ written πισᾶν “IG” 42(1).102.278 (Epid., 4th c.BC); but _sing._ πίσσας [prev. work]238,240: distinguished as π. ὠμή and ἑψηθεῖσα, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.9.2, compare 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.89.6, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 1.37 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. ὑγρά raw pitch, [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.72.1, “PLond.” 3.1171.11 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; opposed to ξηρά, [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.72.5, “PLond.” 3.929.66, “SIG” 1171.14 (from Lebena)] Refs 1st c.AD+], compare παλίμπισσ; ὀρὸς πίσσης, ={πίσσανθος}, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἑλκῶν” 12: proverbial, μελάντερον ἠΰτε πίσσα Il.[same place] ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄρτι μῦς πίττης γεύεται, i.e. he has got the first taste of misery, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 50.26, compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 14.51; πέπονθα.. ὄσσα κἡμ πίσσῃ μῦς 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 2.62. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II resin, used for treating winejars, [[ “PCair.Zen.” 481 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]. (Cf. Latin pix.)