κύβος

κύβος [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. Godʼs work is no mere chance, S. Fr. 895; ἔργον ἐν κύβοις Ἄρης κρινεῖ A. Th. 414; ἄλλα βλήματʼ ἐν κύβοις βαλεῖν E. Supp. 330; ψυχὴν προβάλλοντʼ ἐν κύβοισι δαίμονος Id. Rh. 183: later in sg., οἶδʼ 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; ἐφʼ ἑνὸς ἀνδρὸς ἀναρρίπτειν τὸν κ. Id. Harm. 3; ἀνερρίφθω κ., Lat.jacta esto alea, Men. 65.4, Plu. Caes. 32; ἔσχατον κύβον ἀφιέναι try oneʼs luck for the last time, Id. Cor. 3. 2. of the single pips on the dice, βέβληκʼ 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, IG 22.463.57, 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, 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.]