κύρβεις: Difference between revisions

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