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|Definition=εων, αἱ, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>1354</span>, <span class="bibl">Lys.30.20</span>, etc.; οἱ, <span class="bibl">Cratin.274</span> (but <b class="b3">ταῖς</b> codd. of <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Sol.</span>25</span>), <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Ath.</span>7.1</span>, <span class="bibl">Euph.6</span>: <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> κύρβιες <span class="title">AP</span>4.4 (Agath.); acc. pl. κύρβιας <span class="bibl">A.R.4.280</span>, <span class="title">AP</span>4.3b.37 (Agath.): sg., v. infr. <span class="bibl">111</span>, acc. κύρβιν <span class="bibl">Nonn.<span class="title">D.</span>12.55</span>; dat. <b class="b3">κύρβιδι</b> ib.<span class="bibl">37</span>: (perh. akin to <b class="b3">κόρυμβος</b>): —at Athens, <b class="b2">triangular tablets</b>, forming a three-sided pyramid, turning on a pivot, upon which the early laws were inscribed, Cratin. l.c., Ar.l.c., <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Plt.</span>298e</span>, <span class="bibl">Lys.30.17</span>, Arist. l. c.; described as being of wood, Plu. l. c.; of bras, Sch.Ar. l. c.; of stone, Apollod.<span class="title">Fr. Hist.</span>107(a) J.; by some identified with <b class="b3">ἄξονες</b>, Eratosth. ap. Sch. <span class="bibl">A.R.4.280</span>, Plu. l.c.; by others distd. from them, Ar.Byz. ap. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">EM</span> 547.52</span>, Sch.A.R. l.c., <span class="title">AB</span>274, Hsch. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> later, of all <b class="b2">pillars</b> or <b class="b2">tablets with inscriptions</b>, Pl. l.c., <span class="bibl">Porph.<span class="title">Abst.</span>2.21</span>; of maps, A.R. l.c.; of wall-pictures, <span class="bibl">Nonn.<span class="title">D.</span>12.32</span>; <b class="b3">κ. γηραλέαι</b>, of Homer's poems, <span class="title">AP</span>15.36 (Cometas), cf. 4.4 (Agath.): metaph., the <b class="b2">pillars</b> of Heracles, ib.<span class="bibl">4.3b</span>.<span class="bibl">37</span> (Id.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> in sg., metaph., of the Spartan scytale, <span class="bibl">Achae.19</span>; of <b class="b2">a pettifogging lawyer</b>, as if <b class="b2">a walking statutebook</b>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>448</span> (anap.); <b class="b3">κ. ἑταιρικῶν κακῶν</b>, of a <b class="b3">ἑταίρα</b>, <span class="bibl">Aristaenet. 1.17</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Zen.4.77</span>.</span>