- κύβος
- κύβος [[pron. full] ῠ, v. sub fin.], ὁ,A cube, Ti.Locr.98c; esp.cubical die, marked on all six sides, mostly in pl., dice, Hdt.1.94, etc.;
κύβων βολαί S. Fr.429
;ἐν πτώσει κύβων Pl.R.604c
;περὶ κύβους τὰς διατριβὰς ποιούμενοι Lys.16.11
: prov., ἀεὶ γὰρ εὖ πίπτουσιν οἱ Διὸς κ., i.e. God's work is no mere chance, S.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 AP5.24
(Phld.);τὸν περὶ τῶν ὅλων ἀναρρίψων κύβον Plu.Fab.14
, cf. Luc.Pr.Im.16;ἐφ' ἑνὸς ἀνδρὸς ἀναρρίπτειν τὸν κ. Id.Harm.3
; ἀνερρίφθω κ., Lat.jacta esto alea, Men.65.4, Plu.Caes. 32; ἔσχατον κύβον ἀφιέναι try one's luck for the last time, Id.Cor. 3.2 of the single pips on the dice, βέβληκ' Ἀχιλλεὺς δύο κύβω καὶ τέσσαρα he has thrown two aces and a four, E.Fr.888: prov., τρὶς ἓξ . . ἢ τρεῖς κύβους βάλλειν 'all or nothing', Pl.Lg.968e, cf. Pherecr. 124.3 in pl., gaming-table, Hermipp.27.II cubic number, Pl. R.528b, Arist.APo.76b8.III anything of cubic shape: vertebra, Rhian.57.2 block of stone, PCair.Zen.276 (iii B.C.); of wood, IG22.463.57, 7.3073.187 (Lebad., ii B.C.).3 piece of salt fish, Alex.187.4.4 kind of cubic cake, Eup.424, Heraclid. ap. Ath.3.114a.5 hollow above the hips of cattle, Simaristus ib.9.399b.6 part of an irrigation-machine, BGU1546 (iii B.C.), PLond.3.1177.216 (ii A.D.). [κῦβος only in late Poets, AP14.8; coebus Aus.Idyll.11.3.]
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