Πλαίσιον
oblong, rectangle
Translated by David Whitehead15 Apr 2010Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πλαίσιον· τετράγωνος τάξις στρατεύματος. καὶ τὸ ἐκ ξύλων τετραγώνων πῆγμα, ὅ τινες πλινθίον καλοῦσιν. ὁπόταν πρὸς πάσας τὰς πλευρὰς παρατάξηταί τις ἑτερομήκει σχήματι.
Betacode
*plai/sion: tetra/gwnos ta/cis strateu/matos. kai\ to\ e)k cu/lwn tetragw/nwn ph=gma, o(/ tines plinqi/on kalou=sin. o(po/tan pro\s pa/sas ta\s pleura\s parata/chtai/ tis e(teromh/kei sxh/mati.
Notes (2)
- cf. pi 1775, pi 1778. Modern scholars sometimes refer to this as the 'square' formation, but bricks are rectangular, and when a writer means a square, he has to say so explicitly (for an example, Xenophon, see at pi 1778).
- 1Same or similar material in other lexica (references at Photius pi910 Theodoridis), and cf. the scholia to Thucydides 6.67.1, where the phrase
e)n plaisi/w| occurs in his description of a battle-order at Syracuse. ↩ - 2Some of the mss. have a small diagram to illustrate this: a rectangular box containing 12 dots in 4 columns of three. ↩
Linked from2 entries
- π1775Πλινθίονoblong, rectangleA kind of military formation. "He himself, leading the army in oblong[-formation], proceeded on foot."
- π1778Πλινθωτὸνbrick-shaped, oblong[Brick-shaped] or brick-like is the term used when, in a four-sided shape, this produces what Xenophon the son of Gryllos calls an equal-sided rectangle.
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