πλινθίον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, Dim. of [[πλίνθος]], <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[small brick]], <span class="bibl">Th.6.88</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>7.1.24</span>; of gold, <span class="title">IG</span>22.1377.13. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> = [[πλαίσιον]]: </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">1</span> [[square]] of troops, <span class="title">Hell.Oxy.</span>7.2, <span class="bibl">Plu. <span class="title">Crass.</span>23</span>, <span class="bibl">Arr.<span class="title">Tact.</span>11.5</span>, <span class="bibl">29.8</span>; τάξας τὴν στρατιὰν ἐν πλινθίῳ <span class="bibl">J.<span class="title">AJ</span>13.4.4</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[sundial]], Vitr.9.8.1. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> [[a bandage]], = [[ἡμιρρόμβιον]], Gal. 18(1).798, cf. Heraclasap.<span class="bibl">Orib.48.13.1</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">b</span> [[machine]] invented by Nileus for reducing dislocations, Heliod. ap. <span class="bibl">Orib.49.7</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> [[rectangular box]], <span class="bibl">Bito60.2</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> [[checker-board]], <span class="bibl">Poll.9.98</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[table of numbers divided into squares]], <span class="bibl">Vett.Val.321.1</span>: hence, = [[διάγραμμα]], of a musical scale, <span class="bibl">Ph.1.27</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> pl., = Lat. [[regiones caeli]], [[fields]] into which the Augurs divided the [[templum]] of the heavens, <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Cam.</span>32</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Rom.</span> 22</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> [[squares]] or [[checks]] of tartan, <span class="bibl">D.S.5.30</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">5</span> [[front frame]] of a torsion-engine, <span class="bibl">Ph.<span class="title">Bel.</span>60.6</span>, <span class="bibl">Hero<span class="title">Bel.</span>81.10</span>; also, [[case]] or [[chamber]] in which mechanism is fitted, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Aut.</span>5.3</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">6</span> generally, [[rectangle]], <span class="bibl">Str. 2.5.36</span>, <span class="title">PMag.Lond.</span>46.349,361.</span>