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|Definition=[ᾰ], ον,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[with four angles]], but usually [[square]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.178, 181, 2.124, Hp.''Fract.''13; <b class="b3">δοκοὶ τ.</b> [[squared]], Th.4.112; <b class="b3">ξύλα τετράγωνα</b> ''IG''12.313.101, 42(1).108.162, al. (Epid., iv/iii B.C.); <b class="b3">τετράγωνος ἐργασία</b>, of the Hermes-statues, Th.6.27; πρόσωπον τετραγωνότερον Arist.''Phgn.''809b16; <b class="b3">κύκλος τετράγωνος ταῖς ἐπιφανείαις</b> a [[ring]] [[with four surfaces]], the [[breadth]] of the [[outer]] and [[inner]] [[equal]] to the depth of the two sides, Ptol.''Alm.''5.1 (with the commentary of Procl.''Hyp.''6.3).<br><span class="bld">2</span> τὸ [[τετράγωνον]] a [[square]], [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Republic|R.]]'' 510d, and freq. in Geom., but sometimes of any [[quadrilateral]], [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Metaphysics|Metaph.]]''1054b2, cf. Hero *Deff.100, Procl. ''in Euc.''p.166 F.<br><span class="bld">b</span> in Tactics, [[a body of men drawn up in square]], X.''Lac.''12.1; τ. τάξις Th.4.125.<br><span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b3">τετράγωνος ἀριθμός</b> a [[square]] [[number]], i.e. a [[number]] [[made up of two equal factors]], Pl.''Tht.''147e, Phld.''Sign.''1,15.<br><span class="bld">4</span> [[in quartile aspect]], Gem.2.16, Max.446, Procl.''Hyp.''1.16.<br><span class="bld">II</span> metaph., [[square]], i.e. [[perfect as a square]], χερσί τε καὶ ποσὶ καὶ νόῳ τετράγωνος τετυγμένος Simon.5.2; τὸν ἀγαθὸν ἄνδρα φάναι τετράγωνον Arist.''Rh.''1411b27, cf. ''EN''1100b21.<br><span class="bld">III</span> <b class="b3">ἱμάτιον τετράγωνον</b>, of the [[χλαῖνα]] which hung [[square]], while the [[χλαμύς]] took a [[circular]] [[form]], Id.''Fr.''500; contrasted with the [[ἡμικύκλιον]] formed by the Roman [[toga]], Posidon.36 J., App.''BC'' 5.11.<br><span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">οἱ ἔμποροι καὶ οἱ τὴν τ. ἐργαζόμενοι</b> perhaps those who [[trade]] in the <b class="b3">ἀγορὰ τετράγωνος</b>, Durrbach ''Choix d'Inscrr. de Délos'' 138.<br><span class="bld">IV</span> Adv. [[τετραγώνως]] Philostr.''VA''7.42.