ἄβαξ
τὸ πεπρωμένον φυγεῖν ἀδύνατον → you can't escape your destiny | there is no escaping from destiny | it's impossible to escape from what is destined | it is impossible to escape from what is destined | what is fated is impossible to escape | if you're born to be hanged, then you'll never be drowned | he that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned | if you are born to be hanged then you'll never be drowned | if you're born to be hanged then you'll never be drowned| you can't outrun your fate | you cannot outrun your fate | you can't stop fate | that's the way the cookie crumbles
English (LSJ)
[ᾰ], ᾰκος, ὁ,
A slab, board: 1 reckoning-board, used for counting votes, Arist.Ath.69.1. b board sprinkled with sand or dust for drawing geometrical diagrams, S.E.M.9.282, Iamb.Protr. 34 (pl.), VP5.22. 2 dice-board, Caryst.3. 3 sideboard, Ammon.Diff.1. 4 trencher, plate, Cratin.86, cf. BCH29.510 (Delos, iii B.C.). II in Lat. form abacus, slab on capital of column, Vitr.3.5.5. 2 marble wall-slab, Id.7.3.10. III v. ἀβακής.
German (Pape)
[Seite 2] (βάζω), sprachlos, Eust. ακος, ὁ, abacus (? die alten Gramm. ὁ μὴ βάσιν ἔχων, καταχρηστικῶς δὲ ἐπὶ τοῦ οἵου δή ποτε σανιδίου), 1) Brett, Tafel, a) Prunk-, Nipptisch. – b) Tafel zum Rechnen mit Steinchen (ψήφοις) u. Zeichnen mathematischer Figuren, Iambl. v. Pyth. 5 cf ἀβάκιον. – c) Tafel zum Brettspiel, zum Würfeln, Poll. 10, 156, wie Ath. X, 435 d. – d) überh. flacher Teller, βαλάνων Cratin. bei Poll. 1o, 165. – 2) ein Platz im Theater, Sp.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἄβαξ: [ᾰ], ᾰκος, ὁ· Λατ. abacus: = πλάξ, σανίς· 1) λογιστικὴ πλὰξ ἢ σανὶς πρὸς γεωμετρικὰ σχήματα, Ἰαμβλ. βίος Πυθ. 5, Σέξτ. Ἐμπ. 447, 4, Βεκκ. καὶ ὑποκορ. ἀβάκιον, Λυσ. π. Πολυδ. 10. 105. Ἀλεξ. Ἀπεγλ. 1. 3. 2) παιγνιδίου σανίς, ἐφ’ ἧς ἔπαιζον τοὺς πεσσούς, Καρυστ. π. Ἀθ. 435 Δ, Ὑποκορ. ἀβάκιον Πολυδ. 10. 150. κυβευτοῦ σκεῦος καὶ 10, 106 χρῆσθαι δ’ ἔξεστι τῷ ὀνόματι καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ ὀψοφόρου σκεύους. 3) τράπεζα ἢ σανίς, ἐφ’ ἧς ἐτίθεντο τὰ σκεύη, Ἀμμων. 4) δίσκος, τρυβλίον, Κρατῖν. Κλεοβ. 2. ΙΙ. μέρος ἐπὶ τῆς σκηνῆς ἐν ὑποκορ. μορφῇ ἀβάκιον, Σουΐδ. ΙΙΙ. πρβλ. ἀβακίσκος.
