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κυβεία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυβεία

Structure: κυβει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: kubeu/w

Sense

  1. dice-playing, dicing, sleight of hand, trickery

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐν ἀνδρογύνοισ καὶ κυβείασ μεθημερινὰσ καὶ αὐλήσεισ ἐν θεάτροισ, καὶ νύκτα μὲν ἐν δείπνοισ ἡμέραν δ’ ἐν ἀρίστοισ ἐπιλείπουσαν, οὐδεὶσ ἂν ἐφίκοιτο τῷ λόγῳ διελθεῖν. (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 5 18:1)
  • γάμουσ δ’ αὐτῶν ἐπαλλήλουσ ὥσπερ ἵππων ἐν ἀγέλαισ γυναικῶν ἀνέδην διημερευόντων, καὶ φθορὰσ παίδων καὶ τυμπανισμοὺσ ἐν ἀνδρογύνοισ καὶ κυβείασ μεθημερινὰσ καὶ αὐλήσεισ ἐν θεάτροισ, καὶ νύκτα μὲν ἐν δείπνοισ ἡμέραν δ’ ἐν ἀρίστοισ ἐπιλείπουσαν, οὐδεὶσ ἂν ἐφίκοιτο τῷ λόγῳ διελθεῖν. (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 5 6:3)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ τὸ νικᾶν ἡδύ, ἀνάγκη καὶ τὰσ παιδιὰσ ἡδείασ εἶναι τὰσ μαχητικὰσ καὶ τὰσ ἐριστικάσ πολλάκισ γὰρ ἐν ταύταισγίγνεται τὸ νικᾶν, καὶ ἀστραγαλίσεισ καὶ σφαιρίσεισ καὶ κυβείασ καὶ πεττείασ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 11 15:1)
  • τοῦτον δὴ πρῶτον ἀριθμόν τε καὶ λογισμὸν εὑρεῖν καὶ γεωμετρίαν καὶ ἀστρονομίαν, ἔτι δὲ πεττείασ τε καὶ κυβείασ, καὶ δὴ καὶ γράμματα. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 310:7)
  • ‐ Οὐ μὰ τὸν Δί̓ ἀστρονομίασ ἡγησαίμην ἂν ἔγωγε προσήκειν αὐτῷ τι, πολὺ δὲ μᾶλλον κυβείασ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 7:1)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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