τετράγωνος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ᾰ], ον, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[with four angles]], but usu. [[square]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.178</span>, <span class="bibl">181</span>, <span class="bibl">2.124</span>, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Fract.</span>13</span>; <b class="b3">δοκοὶ τ</b>. [[squared]], <span class="bibl">Th.4.112</span>; <b class="b3">ξύλα τ</b>. <span class="title">IG</span>12.313.101, 42(1).108.162, al. (Epid., iv/iii B.C.); <b class="b3">τ. ἐργασία</b>, of the Hermes-statues, <span class="bibl">Th.6.27</span>; πρόσωπον -ότερον <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Phgn.</span>809b16</span>; <b class="b3">κύκλος τετράγωνος ταῖς ἐπιφανείαις</b> a ring [[with four surfaces]], the breadth of the outer and inner equal to the depth of the two sides, Ptol.<span class="title">Alm.</span>5.1 (with the commentary of <span class="bibl">Procl.<span class="title">Hyp.</span>6.3</span>). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">τὸ τ</b>. [[a square]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>510d</span>, and freq. in Geom., but sometimes of any [[quadrilateral]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Metaph.</span>1054b2</span>, cf. Hero *Deff.100, <span class="bibl">Procl. <span class="title">in Euc.</span>p.166</span> F. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> in Tactics, [[a body of men drawn up in square]], <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Lac.</span>12.1</span>; τ. τάξις <span class="bibl">Th.4.125</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b3">τ. ἀριθμός</b> a [[square]] number, i.e. a number [[made up of two equal factors]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Tht.</span>147e</span>, <span class="bibl">Phld.<span class="title">Sign.</span>1</span>,<span class="bibl">15</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> [[in quartile aspect]], <span class="bibl">Gem.2.16</span>, <span class="bibl">Max.446</span>, <span class="bibl">Procl.<span class="title">Hyp.</span>1.16</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> metaph., [[square]], i.e. [[perfect as a square]], χερσί τε καὶ ποσὶ καὶ νόῳ τετράγωνος τετυγμένος <span class="bibl">Simon.5.2</span>; τὸν ἀγαθὸν ἄνδρα φάναι τετράγωνον <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1411b27</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">EN</span>1100b21</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> <b class="b3">ἱμάτιον τ</b>., of the [[χλαῖνα]] [[which hung square]], while the [[χλαμύς]] took a circular form, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Fr.</span>500</span>; contrasted with the [[ἡμικύκλιον]] formed by the Roman toga, <span class="bibl">Posidon.36</span> J., <span class="bibl">App.<span class="title">BC</span> 5.11</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">οἱ ἔμποροι καὶ οἱ τὴν τ. ἐργαζόμενοι</b> perhaps [[those who trade in the]] <b class="b3">ἀγορὰ τετράγωνος</b>, Durrbach <b class="b2">Choix d'Inscrr. de Délos</b> <span class="bibl">138</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IV</span> Adv. -νως <span class="bibl">Philostr.<span class="title">VA</span>7.42</span>.</span>