ψῆφος: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=[[ψῆφος]], δοριξ [[ψᾶφος]], ἡ, [ψάω]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> a [[small]] [[stone]], a [[pebble]], rubbed and [[rounded]] in [[river]]-beds or on the sea-[[shore]], Lat. [[calculus]], Pind., Hdt.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> a [[pebble]] used for [[reckoning]], a [[counter]], ψήφοις λογίζεσθαι to [[calculate]] by [[arithmetic]], to [[cipher]], Hdt.; [[hence]] to [[reckon]] [[exactly]] or [[accurately]], Ar.; ἐν ψήφῳ λέγειν Aesch.:— in pl. accounts, καθαραὶ ψῆφοι an [[exact]] [[balance]], Dem.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> a [[pebble]] used for playing at [[draughts]], Plat.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> a [[pebble]] used in voting, [[which]] was thrown [[into]] the voting-urn (ὑδρίἀ, Hdt., [[attic]]; ψῆφον φέρειν to [[give]] one's [[vote]], Lat. [[suffragium]] ferre, Aesch., etc.; so, ψῆφον τίθεσθαι Hdt.:— ψήφῳ κρίνειν, διακρίνειν to [[determine]] by [[vote]], Thuc., etc.:—in [[collective]] [[sense]], ψ. γίγνεται [[περί]] τινος a [[vote]] is taken, [[Antipho]].; ἡ σώζουσα, ἡ καθαιροῦσα [[ψῆφος]] the [[vote]] of [[acquittal]], of condemnation, Lys., Dem.:— τὴν ψῆφον ἐπάγειν to put the [[vote]] or [[question]], like ἐπιψηφίζειν, Thuc. b. that [[which]] is carried by [[vote]], ψ. καταγνώσεως a [[vote]] of condemnation, Thuc.; [[ψῆφος]] περὶ φυγῆς a [[vote]] of [[banishment]], Xen. c. any [[resolve]] or [[decree]], e. g. of a [[king]], Soph.; λιθίνα [[ψᾶφος]] a [[decree]] written on [[stone]], Pind.; [[διδοῖ]] ψᾶφον παρ' αὐτᾶς [the oak] gives [[judgment]] of itself, Pind. d. [[ψῆφος]] Ἀθηνᾶς, [[calculus]] Minervae, a [[proverb]]. [[phrase]] to [[express]] [[acquittal]].—the [[vote]] by [[ψῆφος]], [[ballot]], must be [[distinguished]] from that by [[κύαμος]], lot; the [[former]] [[being]] used in trials, the [[latter]] in elections.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> the [[place]] of voting (as πεσσοί for the [[place]] of [[play]]), Eur.