πλινθίον
τοῖς οἰκείοις συκοφαντίαν δέδωκεν → has given to his friends an opportunity for chicane, has offered to his friends the right of vindictive prosecution
English (LSJ)
τό, Dim. of πλίνθος,
A small brick, Th.6.88, X.Cyr.7.1.24; of gold, IG22.1377.13. 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.AJ13.4.4. 2 sundial, Vitr.9.8.1. 3 a bandage, = ἡμιρρόμβιον, Gal. 18(1).798, cf. Heraclasap.Orib.48.13.1. b machine invented by Nileus for reducing dislocations, Heliod. ap. Orib.49.7. 4 rectangular box, Bito60.2. 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, HeroBel.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.
