βύβλος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=and βίβλος (v. sub fin.), ἡ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[the Egyptian papyrus]], [[Cyperus Papyrus]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.92</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Supp.</span>761</span>, <span class="bibl">Str.17.1.15</span>: in pl., [[stalks of papyrus]], PTeb.308.7 (ii A. D.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[rind]] enclosing the pith of this plant, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>4.8.4</span>, etc.: generally, [[bark]], φελλῶν καὶ βύβλων <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Plt.</span> 288e</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.96</span>, <span class="bibl">Plot.2.7.2</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> in pl., [[slices of the pith]] used as writing-material, <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.58</span>, <span class="bibl">Hermipp.63.13</span>: sg., [[strip of]] β., βύβλον εὐρύναντες ἀντὶ διαδήματος <span class="bibl">Ph.2.522</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[roll]] of papyrus, [[book]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.100</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Supp.</span>947</span>, etc.: heterocl. pl., [[βύβλα]], [[τά]], <span class="title">AP</span>9.98 (Stat. Flacc.); especially of sacred or magical [[writings]], βίβλων ὅμαδον Μουσαίου καὶ Ὀρφέως <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>364e</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">D.18.259</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Act.Ap.</span>19.19</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PPar.</span>19.1</span> (ii A. D.); ἱεραί β. <span class="title">OGI</span>56.70 (Canopus, iii B. C.); β. ἱερατική <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PTeb.</span>291.43</span> (ii A. D.); so of the Scriptures, ἡ β. γενέσεως οὐρανοῦ καὶ γῆς <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ge.</span>2.4</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">ἡ β</b>. [[the Sacred Writings]], Aristeas <span class="bibl">316</span>; <b class="b3">β. Μωυσέως, ψαλμῶν, προφητῶν</b>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Marc.</span>12.26</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Act.Ap.</span>1.20</span>, <span class="bibl">7.42</span>; β. ζωῆς <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ep.Phil.</span>4.3</span>: pl., of magical [[books]], Act.Ap.19.19. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> a [[division]] of a book, <span class="bibl">Plb.4.87.12</span>, <span class="bibl">D.S.1.4</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">αἱ β</b>. the nine [[books]] of Hdt., <span class="bibl">Luc. <span class="title">Herod.</span>1</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b3">β. στεφανωτρίς</b> [[flowering head of papyrus]], Theopomp. Hist.<span class="bibl">22c</span>, <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Ages.</span>36</span>. [ῠ, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Supp.</span>761</span>.] ([[βύβλος]], [[βύβλινος]], [[βυβλίον]], etc., are the original forms: <b class="b3">βιβλ-</b>seems to have arisen in Attic by assimilation in [[βιβλίον]], and is found in earlier Attic Inscrr., cf. <span class="title">IG</span>2.1b, etc., and prevails in Ptolemaic papyri; Inscrr. vary, βυβλία <span class="title">Test.Epict.</span>8.32 (iii/ii B. C.); βιβλία <span class="title">IG</span>5(1).1390.12 (Andania, i B. C.); in Roman times <b class="b3">βυβλ-</b> was restored.)</span>

|mdlsjtxt=<br /><b class="num">1.</b> the Egyptian [[papyrus]], the [[root]] and triangular [[stalk]] of [[which]] were eaten by the [[poor]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> its [[fibrous]] coats, as [[prepared]] for ropes, Hdt.; cf. [[βύβλινος]].<br /><b class="num">3.</b> the [[outer]] [[coat]] of the [[papyrus]], used for [[writing]] on, [[hence]] in pl. leaves of byblus, Hdt.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> a [[paper]], [[book]], Hdt.; in [[this]] [[sense]] [[more]] [[commonly]] written [[βίβλος]] (q. v.):—pl. βύβλα, τά, Anth.