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- ε926Ἐμάλθαξανthey softened… a slightly altered form at pi 445. The Dutch scholar Tiberius Hemsterhuys (1685-1766) proposed conjoining it with another unattributable quotation found in pi 2209. See also sigma 1049. [3] Adler cites Lexica Segueriana 295.6 …
- κ2602Κύβοςcube (six-sided gambling die or a square face or pip (spot) on such a die)… game reported by Suetonius, Augustus 71, from a letter to Tiberius). The entire pot was won by the first player to throw triple 6, and this gave rise to the proverb "either triple 6 …