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κύβος

κύβος, cube, cubical die

κύβος [ῠ, v. sub fin.], ὁ,
  • cube, Ti.Locr. 98c; esp. cubical die, marked on all six sides, mostly in pl., dice, Hdt. 1.94, etc.; κύβων βολαί S. Fr. 429; ἐν πτώσει κύβων Pl. R. 604c; περὶ κύβους τὰς διατριβὰς ποιούμενοι Lys. 16.11: prov., ἀεὶ γὰρ εὖ πίπτουσιν οἱ Διὸς κ., i.e. Godʼs work is no mere chance, S. Fr. 895; ἔργον ἐν κύβοις Ἄρης κρινεῖ A. Th. 414; ἄλλα βλήματʼ ἐν κύβοις βαλεῖν E. Supp. 330; ψυχὴν προβάλλοντʼ ἐν κύβοισι δαίμονος Id. Rh. 183: later in sg., οἶδʼ ὅτι ῥιπτῶ πάντα κύβον κεφαλῆς . . ὕπερθεν ἐμῆς AP 5.24 (Phld.); τὸν περὶ τῶν ὅλων ἀναρρίψων κύβον Plu. Fab. 14, cf. Luc. Pr.Im. 16; ἐφʼ ἑνὸς ἀνδρὸς ἀναρρίπτειν τὸν κ. Id. Harm. 3; ἀνερρίφθω κ., Lat. jacta esto alea, Men. 65.4, Plu. Caes. 32; ἔσχατον κύβον ἀφιέναι try oneʼs luck for the last time, Id. Cor. 3.
      • 2 of the single pips on the dice, βέβληκʼ Ἀχιλλεὺς δύο κύβω καὶ τέσσαρα he has thrown two aces and a four, E. Fr. 888: prov., τρὶς ἓξ . . ἢ τρεῖς κύβους βάλλειν ‘all or nothing’, Pl. Lg. 968e, cf. Pherecr. 124.
      • 3 in pl., gaming-table, Hermipp. 27.
    • II cubic number, Pl. R. 528b, Arist. APo. 76b8.
    • III anything of cubic shape: vertebra, Rhian. 57.
      • 2 block of stone, PCair.Zen. 276 (iii B.C.); of wood, IG 2(2).463.57, 7.3073.187 (Lebad., ii B.C.).
      • 3 piece of salt fish, Alex. 187.4.
      • 4 kind of cubic cake, Eup. 424, Heraclid. ap. Ath. 3.114a.
      • 5 hollow above the hips of cattle, Simaristus ib. 9.399b.
      • 6 part of an irrigation-machine, BGU 1546 (iii B.C.), PLond. 3.1177.216 (ii A.D.). [κῦβος only in late Poets, AP 14.8; coebus Aus. Idyll. 11.3.]

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