II. = πλαίσιον:
1. square of troops, Hell.Oxy.7.2, Plu. Crass.23, Arr.Tact.11.5, 29.8; “τάξας τ ὴν στρατιὰν ἐν πλινθίῳ” J.AJ13.4.4.
2. sundial, Vitr.9.8.1.
b. machine invented by Nileus for reducing dislocations, Heliod. ap. Orib.49.7.
4. rectangular box, Bito60.2.
III. checker-board, Poll.9.98.
2. table of numbers divided into squares, Vett.Val.321.1: hence, = διάγραμμα, of a musical scale, Ph.1.27.
3. pl., = Lat. regiones caeli, fields into which the Augurs divided the templum of the heavens, Plu.Cam.32, Rom. 22.
4. squares or checks of tartan, D.S.5.30.
5. front frame of a torsion-engine, Ph.Bel.60.6, HeroBel.81.10; also, case or chamber in which mechanism is fitted, Id.Aut.5.3.