πλινθ-ίον, τό,
diminutive of πλίνθος, small brick, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.88, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.1.24 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of gold, [[ “IG” 22.1377.13. ] Refs]
__II ={πλαίσιον}:
__II.1 square of troops, [[ “Hellenica Oxyrhynchia” 7.2, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Crassus” 23, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Tactica” 11.5, 29.8; τάξας τὴν στρατιὰν ἐν πλινθίῳ 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 13.4.4. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II.2 sundial, [[ 1st c.BC: Vitruvius Scriptor de Architectura Latinus 9.8.1. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__II.3 a bandage, ={ἡμιρρόμβιον}, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 18(1).798, cf. Heraclasap. 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 48.13.1. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.3.b machine invented by Nileus for reducing dislocations, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Heliodorus Medicus cited in 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 49.7. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II.4 rectangular box, [[ 3rd-2nd c.BC: Bito Mechanicus 60.2. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__III checker-board, [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 9.98. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__III.2 table of numbers divided into squares, [[ 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 321.1 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: hence, ={διάγραμμα}, of a musical scale, [[ 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.27. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]