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|Definition=εων, αἱ, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>1354</span>, <span class="bibl">Lys.30.20</span>, etc.; οἱ, <span class="bibl">Cratin.274</span> (but <b class="b3">ταῖς</b> codd. of <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Sol.</span>25</span>), <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Ath.</span>7.1</span>, <span class="bibl">Euph.6</span>: <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> κύρβιες <span class="title">AP</span>4.4 (Agath.); acc. pl. κύρβιας <span class="bibl">A.R.4.280</span>, <span class="title">AP</span>4.3b.37 (Agath.): sg., v. infr. <span class="bibl">111</span>, acc. κύρβιν <span class="bibl">Nonn.<span class="title">D.</span>12.55</span>; dat. <b class="b3">κύρβιδι</b> ib.<span class="bibl">37</span>: (perh. akin to <b class="b3">κόρυμβος</b>): —at Athens, [[triangular tablets]], forming a three-sided pyramid, turning on a pivot, upon which the early laws were inscribed, Cratin. l.c., Ar.l.c., <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Plt.</span>298e</span>, <span class="bibl">Lys.30.17</span>, Arist. l. c.; described as being of wood, Plu. l. c.; of bras, Sch.Ar. l. c.; of stone, Apollod.<span class="title">Fr. Hist.</span>107(a) J.; by some identified with <b class="b3">ἄξονες</b>, Eratosth. ap. Sch. <span class="bibl">A.R.4.280</span>, Plu. l.c.; by others distd. from them, Ar.Byz. ap. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">EM</span> 547.52</span>, Sch.A.R. l.c., <span class="title">AB</span>274, Hsch. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> later, of all [[pillars]] or [[tablets with inscriptions]], Pl. l.c., <span class="bibl">Porph.<span class="title">Abst.</span>2.21</span>; of maps, A.R. l.c.; of wall-pictures, <span class="bibl">Nonn.<span class="title">D.</span>12.32</span>; <b class="b3">κ. γηραλέαι</b>, of Homer's poems, <span class="title">AP</span>15.36 (Cometas), cf. 4.4 (Agath.): metaph., the [[pillars]] of Heracles, ib.<span class="bibl">4.3b</span>.<span class="bibl">37</span> (Id.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> in sg., metaph., of the Spartan scytale, <span class="bibl">Achae.19</span>; of [[a pettifogging lawyer]], as if [[a walking statutebook]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>448</span> (anap.); <b class="b3">κ. ἑταιρικῶν κακῶν</b>, of a <b class="b3">ἑταίρα</b>, <span class="bibl">Aristaenet. 1.17</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Zen.4.77</span>.</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f. a. m.<br />Meaning: name of [[turnable pillars or columns]], in the form of a three-sided pyramide, on which in Athens the laws of Solon were inscribed, also used of other inscribed tables (Att., Arist.).<br />Other forms: (<b class="b3">-ιες</b>), <b class="b3">-εων</b> pl., rarely sg. <b class="b3">κύρβις</b>.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: As technical expression suspected of being a loan. Mostly (Zupitza, Prellwitz etc., s. WP. 1, 472 f.) connected with <b class="b3">καρπός</b> [[hand-root]] (s. v.); apart from the diverging <b class="b3">-β-</b>, is an IE. sequence <b class="b2">*kurp-</b>, <b class="b2">*kurb-</b> (for <b class="b2">*ku̯r̥p-</b>, <b class="b2">*ku̯r̥b-</b>) hardly acceptable. - Here also <b class="b3">Κύρβαντες</b> (s. v.) seen the whirling dances (Fick BB 29, 239, Kretschmer Sprache 2, 68)? Discussion in Jeffery, Local Scrpts 53f. - Pre-Greek?