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πλινθίον, a small brick

πλινθ-ίον, τό,
  • Dim. of πλίνθος, small brick, Th. 6.88, X. Cyr. 7.1.24; of gold, IG 2(2).1377.13.
    • II = πλαίσιον:
      • 1 square of troops, Hell.Oxy. 7.2, Plu. Crass. 23, Arr. Tact. 11.5, 29.8; τάξας τὴν στρατιὰν ἐν πλινθίῳ J. AJ 13.4.4.
      • 2 sundial, Vitr. 9.8.1.
      • 3 a bandage, = ἡμιρρόμβιον, Gal. 18(1).798, cf. Heraclas ap. Orib. 48.13.1.
        • b machine invented by Nileus for reducing dislocations, Heliod. ap. Orib. 49.7.
      • 4 rectangular box, Bito 60.2.
    • III checker-board, Poll. 9.98.
      • 2 table of numbers divided into squares, Vett.Val. 321.1: hence, = διάγραμμα, of a musical scale, Ph. 1.27.
      • 3 pl., = Lat. regiones caeli, fields into which the Augurs divided the templum of the heavens, Plu. Cam. 32, Rom. 22.
      • 4 squares or checks of tartan, D.S. 5.30.
      • 5 front frame of a torsion-engine, Ph. Bel. 60.6, Hero Bel. 81.10; also, case or chamber in which mechanism is fitted, Id. Aut. 5.3.
      • 6 generally, rectangle, Str. 2.5.36, PMag.Lond. 46.349,361.

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