A.cube, Ti.Locr.98c; esp.cubical die, marked on all six sides, mostly in pl., dice, Hdt.1.94, etc.; “κύβων βολαί” S. Fr.429; “ἐν πτώσει κύβων” Pl.R.604c; “περὶ κύβους τὰς διατριβὰς ποιούμενοι” Lys.16.11: prov., ἀεὶ γὰρ εὖ πίπτουσιν οἱ Διὸς κ., i.e. God's work is no mere chance, S.Fr.895; “ἔργον ἐν κύβοις Ἄρης κρινεῖ” A.Th. 414; “ἄλλα βλήματ᾽ ἐν κύβοις βαλεῖν” E.Supp.330; “ψυχὴν προβάλλοντ᾽ ἐν κύβοισι δαίμονος” Id.Rh.183: later in sg., “οἶδ᾽ ὅτι ῥιπτῶ πάντα κύβον κεφαλῆς . . ὕπερθεν ἐμῆς” AP5.24 (Phld.); “τὸν περὶ τῶν ὅλων ἀναρρίψων κύβον” Plu.Fab.14, cf. Luc.Pr.Im.16; “ἐφ᾽ ἑνὸς ἀνδρὸς ἀναρρίπτειν τὸν κ.” Id.Harm.3; ἀνερρίφθω κ., Lat.jacta esto alea, Men.65.4, Plu.Caes. 32; ἔσχατον κύβον ἀφιέναι try one's luck for the last time, Id.Cor. 3.
2. of the single pips on the dice, βέβληκ᾽ Ἀχιλλεὺς δύο κύβω καὶ τέσσαρα he has thrown two aces and a four, E.Fr.888: prov., τρὶς ἓξ . . ἢ τρεῖς κύβους βάλλειν 'all or nothing', Pl.Lg.968e, cf. Pherecr. 124.
3. in pl., gaming-table, Hermipp.27.
II. cubic number, Pl. R.528b, Arist.APo.76b8.
III. anything of cubic shape: vertebra, Rhian.57.
2. block of stone, PCair.Zen.276 (iii B.C.); of wood, IG22.463.57, 7.3073.187 (Lebad., ii B.C.).
3. piece of salt fish, Alex.187.4.
5. hollow above the hips of cattle, Simaristus ib.9.399b.
6. part of an irrigation-machine, BGU1546 (iii B.C.), PLond.3.1177.216 (ii A.D.). [κῦβος only in late Poets, AP14.8; coebus Aus.Idyll.11.3.]
