ἡμιπλίνθιον
From LSJ
ἰχθύς ἐκ τῆς κεφαλῆς ὄζειν ἄρχεται → the fish stinks from the head, a fish rots from the head down, the fish rots from the head down, fish begin to stink at the head, the fish stinks first at the head, corruption starts at the top, the rot starts at the top
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.
