πολίχνη

A. fort, small town, Th. 7.4, Call. Del. 41. Plu. Tim. 11, etc.; in earlier writers only as pr. n., Πολίχνη, Att. Πολίχνα, a city in Chios, Hdt. 6.26; in Ionia, Th. 8.14, etc.; in the Megarid, v.l. in Il. 2.557:—hence Πολιχνῖται, οἱ, inhabitants of a city in Crete, Hdt. 7.170.