ἡμιπλίνθιον
From LSJ
οὐκ ἂν λάβοις παρὰ τοῦ μὴ ἔχοντος → you can't take from one who doesn't have, you can't squeeze blood out of a turnip, you can't get blood out of a turnip, you can't get blood from a stone, you can't get blood out of a stone
English (LSJ)
τό, (πλίνθος)
A half-plinth, brick (two of which formed a plinth), ἡμιπλίνθια χρυσοῦ ingots of gold, Hdt.1.50, cf. IG12.314.82:—also ἡμί-πλινθος, ὁ, Gloss.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1169] τό, Halbziegel, Her. 1, 50; Themist. or. 19.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἡμιπλίνθιον: τό, (πλίνθος) ἡμίσεια πλίνθος, «τοῦβλον» (ὧν δύο ἀπετέλουν μίαν πλίνθον), Λατ. semilaterium, ἡμιπλίνθια χρυσοῦ, ἐλάσματα παχέα ἀκατεργάστου χρυσοῦ, Ἡρόδ. 1. 50.
