βίβλος: Difference between revisions

|txtha=βίβλου, ἡ (or [[rather]] ἡ [[βύβλος]] ([[but]] the [[form]] [[βίβλος]] is [[more]] [[common]] [[when]] it denotes a [[writing]]), the [[plant]] called [[papyrus]], Theophrastus, hist. [[plant]]. 4,8, 2 f; (Pliny, h. n. 13,11 f (21 f)); from its [[bark]] ([[rather]], the cellular [[substance]] of its [[stem]] (for it [[was]] an endogenous [[plant]])) [[paper]] [[was]] made ([[see]] Tristram, Nat. Hist. etc., p. 433 f; [[especially]] Dureau de la Malle in the Memoires de l'Acad. d. Inscriptions etc. tom. 19 [[part]] 1 (1851), pp. 140-183, and (in [[correction]] of [[current]] misapprehensions) Prof. E. Abbot in the Library Journal for Nov. 1878, p. 323f, [[where]] [[other]] references are [[also]] given)), a written [[book]], a [[roll]] or [[scroll]]: τῆς ζωῆς, [[βιβλίον]]. (From [[Aeschylus]] [[down]].)