κύβος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῠ, v. sub fin.], ὁ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">cube</b>, <span class="bibl">Ti.Locr.98c</span>; esp.<b class="b2">cubical die</b>, marked on all six sides, mostly in pl., <b class="b2">dice</b>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.94</span>, etc.; κύβων βολαί <span class="bibl">S. <span class="title">Fr.</span>429</span>; ἐν πτώσει κύβων <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>604c</span>; περὶ κύβους τὰς διατριβὰς ποιούμενοι <span class="bibl">Lys.16.11</span>: prov., <b class="b3">ἀεὶ γὰρ εὖ πίπτουσιν οἱ Διὸς κ</b>., i.e. God's work is no mere chance, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>895</span>; ἔργον ἐν κύβοις Ἄρης κρινεῖ <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span> 414</span>; ἄλλα βλήματ' ἐν κύβοις βαλεῖν <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Supp.</span>330</span>; ψυχὴν προβάλλοντ' ἐν κύβοισι δαίμονος <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Rh.</span>183</span>: later in sg., οἶδ' ὅτι ῥιπτῶ πάντα κύβον κεφαλῆς . . ὕπερθεν ἐμῆς <span class="title">AP</span>5.24 (Phld.); τὸν περὶ τῶν ὅλων ἀναρρίψων κύβον <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Fab.</span>14</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Pr.Im.</span>16</span>; ἐφ' ἑνὸς ἀνδρὸς ἀναρρίπτειν τὸν κ. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Harm.</span>3</span>; <b class="b3">ἀνερρίφθω κ</b>., Lat.<b class="b2">jacta esto alea</b>, <span class="bibl">Men.65.4</span>, <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Caes.</span> 32</span>; <b class="b3">ἔσχατον κύβον ἀφιέναι</b> try one's luck for the last time, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Cor.</span> 3</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> of the single <b class="b2">pips on the dice</b>, <b class="b3">βέβληκ' Ἀχιλλεὺς δύο κύβω καὶ τέσσαρα</b> he has thrown two <b class="b2">aces</b> and a four, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Fr.</span>888</span>: prov., <b class="b3">τρὶς ἓξ . . ἢ τρεῖς κύβους βάλλειν</b> 'all or nothing', <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>968e</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pherecr. 124</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> in pl., <b class="b2">gaming-table</b>, <span class="bibl">Hermipp.27</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">cubic number</b>, <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">R.</span>528b</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">APo.</span>76b8</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> <b class="b2">anything of cubic shape: vertebra</b>, <span class="bibl">Rhian.57</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">block</b> of stone, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>276</span> (iii B.C.); of wood, <span class="title">IG</span>22.463.57, 7.3073.187 (Lebad., ii B.C.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b2">piece of salt fish</b>, <span class="bibl">Alex.187.4</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> kind of <b class="b2">cubic cake</b>, <span class="bibl">Eup.424</span>, Heraclid. ap. <span class="bibl">Ath.3.114a</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">5</span> <b class="b2">hollow above the hips</b> of cattle, Simaristus ib.<span class="bibl">9.399b</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">6</span> <b class="b2">part of an irrigation-machine</b>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">BGU</span>1546</span> (iii B.C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PLond.</span>3.1177.216</span> (ii A.D.). [<b class="b3">κῦβος</b> only in late Poets, <span class="title">AP</span>14.8; <b class="b2">coebus</b> Aus.<span class="title">Idyll.</span>11.3.]</span>