πλάξ, πλᾰκός, ἡ,
anything flat and broad, especially flat land, plain, πᾶσαν ἠπείρου πλάκα [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 718 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; Φλεγραίαν π. [[ [prev. author] “Eu.” 295 ] Refs]; νυχίαν π., of Psyttaleia (perhaps μυχίαν), [[ [prev. author] “Pers.” 953 (Lyric poetry); πλακὸς ὑλίας “Berl.Sitzb.” 1927.7 (_Locrian dialect_, 5th c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; νεκύων πλάκα [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1564 (Lyric poetry); νεκρῶν πλάκες [prev. work] 1577 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also of sea and sky, πόντου πλάξ the ocean-plain, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.24; ἄλοκα Νηρεΐας πλακὸς τέμνοντες 6th c.BC: Arion Lyricus 1.15 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; ποντία, πελαγία π., [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 578.4, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1438; κατ᾽ Αἰγαίην πόντου πλάκα “BMus.Inscription” 1012 (Chalcedon, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἰθερία πλάξ [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 1349 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; flat top of a hill, table-land, Σουνίου, Οἴτης π., [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1220, “Ph.” 1430; Παρνασοῦ πλάκες 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1267 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀπ᾽ ἄκρας πυργώδους πλακός from the flat top of the towering hill, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 273; τὰς π. τοῦ ὄρους 2nd c.AD(?): Antoninus Liberalis Mythographus 4.1. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 flat stone, tablet, ἐργώνας τᾶν πλακῶν τᾶς τομᾶς εἰς τὸν ὀχετόν [[ “IG” 42(1).109 iii 154 (Epid., 3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; π. ἐπιγεγραμμέναι [[ “OGI” 672.12 (Egypt, 1st c.AD),compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Somn.” 3, etc. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; of the [[ “Tables” of the Jewish Law, αἱ π. τοῦ μαρτυρίου, τῆς διαθήκης, LXX.Exo.31.18, NT.Heb.9.4; λίθων πλαξὶ λείαις 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Am.” 12; οὐκ ἐν πλαξὶν λιθίναις ἀλλ᾽ ἐν π. καρδίας NT.2Cor.3.3 ] LXX+NT+2nd c.AD+]; tombstone, [[ Anthologia Graeca 7.324, compare “IG” 12(5).329 (_plural_, Paros)] Refs]: plural, slabs of marble, Chor.p.89 [[ 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus, compare [same work] in “Rev.Phil.” 1877.79] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὥσπερ μαρμάρου π., of ice, [[ 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Misopogon” 341b. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]