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κιγκλ-ίς , ίδος, ἡ, mostly in pl. κιγκλίδες,
A.latticed gates in the δικαστήριον or βουλευτήριον, by which the δικασταί or βουλευταί were admitted to pass through the δρύφακτοι or bar, Ar.Eq.641, V.124: metaph., ῥητορεία κιγκλίδων ἐπιδέουσα καὶ βήματος requiring the practice of the bar and the assembly, Plu.2.975c: sg., Lib.Or.12.38; ἐντὸς τῆς κ. διατρίβειν live in court, Luc.Merc.Cond.21; αἱ διαλεκτικαὶ κ. logical quibbles, behind which one ensconces oneself, Jul.Caes. 330c.
2. any latticed gates, IG22.1668.65 (sg.), 3.162 pl.).
II. later, = δρύφακτοι, Plu.Caes.68: sg., Id.Galb.14.
III. prob. = Lat. fidiculae, an instrument of torture, Id.Luc.20.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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