κύβος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῠ, v. sub fin.], ὁ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[cube]], Ti.Locr.98c; esp. [[cubical die]], marked on all six sides, mostly in plural, [[dice]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.94, etc.; κύβων βολαί S. ''Fr.''429; ἐν πτώσει κύβων [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Republic|R.]]'' 604c; περὶ κύβους τὰς διατριβὰς ποιούμενοι Lys.16.11: [[proverb|prov.]], [[ἀεὶ γὰρ εὖ πίπτουσιν οἱ Διὸς κύβοι]] = for the [[dice]] [[throw]]n by [[Zeus]] always [[fall]] [[well]], i.e. [[God's work is no mere chance]], [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Fragments|Fr.]]''895; [[ἔργον]] ἐν κύβοις Ἄρης κρινεῖ A.''Th.'' 414; ἄλλα βλήματ' ἐν κύβοις [[βαλεῖν]] E.''Supp.''330; ψυχὴν προβάλλοντ' ἐν κύβοισι δαίμονος Id.''Rh.''183: later in sg., οἶδ' ὅτι ῥιπτῶ πάντα κύβον κεφαλῆς… ὕπερθεν ἐμῆς ''AP''5.24 (Phld.); τὸν περὶ τῶν ὅλων ἀναρρίψων κύβον Plu.''Fab.''14, cf. Luc.''Pr.Im.''16; ἐφ' ἑνὸς ἀνδρὸς [[ἀναρρίπτω|ἀναρρίπτειν]] τὸν κύβον Id.''Harm.''3; [[ἀνερρίφθω κύβος]] = [[let the dice be thrown]], Lat. [[jacta esto alea]], Men.65.4, Plu.''Caes.'' 32; [[ἔσχατον κύβον ἀφιέναι]] = [[try one's luck for the last time]], Id.''Cor.'' 3.<br><span class="bld">2</span> of the single [[pips on the dice]], <b class="b3">βέβληκ' Ἀχιλλεὺς δύο κύβω καὶ τέσσαρα</b> he has [[throw]]n two [[ace]]s and a [[four]], E.''Fr.''888: [[proverb|prov.]], [[ἢ τρὶς ἓξ ἢ τρεῖς κύβους βάλλειν]] = '[[all or nothing]]', Pl.''Lg.''968e, cf. Pherecr. 124.<br><span class="bld">3</span> in plural, [[gaming-table]], Hermipp.27.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[cubic number]], Pl. ''R.''528b, Arist.''APo.''76b8.<br><span class="bld">III</span> anything of [[cubic]] [[shape]]: [[vertebra]], Rhian.57.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[block]] of [[stone]], ''PCair.Zen.''276 (iii B.C.); of wood, ''IG''22.463.57, 7.3073.187 (Lebad., ii B.C.).<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[piece of salt fish]], Alex.187.4.<br><span class="bld">4</span> kind of [[cubic cake]], Eup.424, Heraclid. ap. Ath.3.114a.<br><span class="bld">5</span> [[hollow above the hips]] of [[cattle]], Simaristus ib.9.399b.<br><span class="bld">6</span> [[part of an irrigation machine]], ''BGU''1546 (iii B.C.), ''PLond.''3.1177.216 (ii A.D.). [[κῦβος]] only in late Poets, ''AP''14.8; [[coebus]] Aus.''Idyll.''11.3.]