κ2745Κύρβεις
kyrbeis, kurbeis, crested stelae, crested tablets
Those containing [sc. lists of] the festivals of the gods; being a sort of secret sources, in which the matters of the gods were to be hidden away. Asclepiades [says] that [the term comes] from Kurbes, who 'defined the…
Κύρβεις· αἱ τὰς τῶν θεῶν ἑορτὰς ἔχουσαι· κρύβιές τινες οὖσαι, ἐν αἷς τὰ τῶν θεῶν ἀποκρυπτόμενα ἔδει εἶναι. Ἀσκληπιάδης, ὅτι ἀπὸ Κύρβεως τοῦ τὰς οὐσίας ὁρίσαντος, ὥς φησι Φανίας ὁ…