κύρβεις

English (LSJ)

εων, αἱ, Ar.Av.1354, Lys.30.20, etc.; οἱ, Cratin.274 (but ταῖς codd. of Plu.Sol.25), Arist.Ath.7.1, Euph.6:

   A κύρβιες AP4.4 (Agath.); acc. pl. κύρβιας A.R.4.280, AP4.3b.37 (Agath.): sg., v. infr. 111, acc. κύρβιν Nonn.D.12.55; dat. κύρβιδι ib.37: (perh. akin to κόρυμβος): —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., Pl.Plt.298e, Lys.30.17, Arist. l. c.; described as being of wood, Plu. l. c.; of bras, Sch.Ar. l. c.; of stone, Apollod.Fr. Hist.107(a) J.; by some identified with ἄξονες, Eratosth. ap. Sch. A.R.4.280, Plu. l.c.; by others distd. from them, Ar.Byz. ap. EM 547.52, Sch.A.R. l.c., AB274, Hsch.    II later, of all pillars or tablets with inscriptions, Pl. l.c., Porph.Abst.2.21; of maps, A.R. l.c.; of wall-pictures, Nonn.D.12.32; κ. γηραλέαι, of Homer's poems, AP15.36 (Cometas), cf. 4.4 (Agath.): metaph., the pillars of Heracles, ib.4.3b.37 (Id.).    III in sg., metaph., of the Spartan scytale, Achae.19; of a pettifogging lawyer, as if a walking statutebook, Ar.Nu.448 (anap.); κ. ἑταιρικῶν κακῶν, of a ἑταίρα, Aristaenet. 1.17, cf. Zen.4.77.