πλινθίον
τό
A.
small brick, Th. 6.88, X. Cyr. 7.1.24; of gold, IG 22.1377.13.
II.
= πλαίσιον:
1.
square of troops, Hell.Oxy. 7.2, Plu. Crass. 23, Arr. Tact. 11.5, 29.8; τάξας τὴν στρατιὰν ἐν πλινθίῳ J. AJ 13.4.4.
2.
sundial, Vitr. 9.8.1.
3.
a bandage, = ἡμιρρόμβιον, Gal. 18(1).798, cf. Heraclasap.Orib. 48.13.1.
b.
machine invented by Nileus for reducing dislocations, Heliod. ap. Orib. 49.7.
4.
rectangular box, Bito 60.2.
III.
checker-board, Poll. 9.98.
2.
table of numbers divided into squares, Vett.Val. 321.1: hence, = διάγραμμα, of a musical scale, Ph. 1.27.
3.
pl., = Lat. regiones caeli, fields into which the Augurs divided the templum of the heavens, Plu. Cam. 32, Rom. 22.
4.
squares or checks of tartan, D.S. 5.30.
5.
front frame of a torsion-engine, Ph. Bel. 60.6, Hero Bel. 81.10; also, case or chamber in which mechanism is fitted, Id. Aut. 5.3.
6.
generally, rectangle, Str. 2.5.36, PMag.Lond. 46.349,361.