A). κύρβιες AP 4.4 ( Agath.); acc. pl. κύρβιας A.R. 4.280 , AP 4.3b . 37 ( Agath.): sg., v. infr. 111 , acc. κύρβιν Nonn. D. 12.55 ; dat. κύρβιδι ib. 37 : (perh. akin to κόρυμβος): —at Athens, triangular tablets, forming a three-sided pyramid, turning on a pivot, upon which the early laws were inscribed, Cratin. l.c., Ar.l.c., Pl. Plt. 298e , Lys. 30.17 , Arist. l. c.; described as being of wood, Plu. l. c.; of bras, Sch. Ar. l. c.; of stone, Apollod. Fr. Hist. 107 (a) J.; by some identified with ἄξονες, Eratosth. ap. Sch. A.R. 4.280 , Plu. l.c.; by others distd. from them, Ar.Byz. ap. EM 547.52 , Sch. A.R. l.c., AB 274 , Hsch.

II). later, of all pillars or tablets with inscriptions, Pl. l.c., Porph. Abst. 2.21 ; of maps, A.R. l.c.; of wall-pictures, Nonn. D. 12.32 ; κ. γηραλέαι, of Homer's poems, AP 15.36 (Cometas), cf. 4.4 ( Agath.): metaph., the pillars of Heracles, ib. 4.3b . 37 (Id.).

III). in sg., metaph., of the Spartan scytale, Achae. 19 ; of a pettifogging lawyer, as if a walking statutebook, Ar. Nu. 448 (anap.); κ. ἑταιρικῶν κακῶν, of a ἑταίρα, Aristaenet. 1.17 , cf. Zen. 4.77 .