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σημεῖον, τό,
Ionic dialect σημήϊον, Doric dialect σᾱμήϊον [[ “IG” 12(3).452 (Thera, 4th c.BC)] Refs 4th c.BC+], σᾱμεῖον [[ “IPE” 12.352.25 (Chersonesus, 2nd c.BC), “IG” 5(1).1390.16 (Andania, 1st c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+], σᾱμᾶον [[ “CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 5168 (from Cyrene):] Refs] —= σῆμα in all senses, and more common in Prose, but never in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus or 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: mark by which a thing is known, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.38; σημεῖα τῶν δεδικασμένων.., σημεῖα πάντων ὧν ἔπραξαν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 614c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; sign of the future, τυραννίδος σ. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1355; σ. λαβεῖν ἔκ τινος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 514 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; trace, track, σημεῖα δ᾽ οὔτε θηρὸς οὔτε του κυνῶν.. ἐξεφαίνετο [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 257, compare “El.” 886; τῆς καταβάσεως 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.2.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a cork on a buoy, [[ 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 8.12.1. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__b Doric dialect, tomb, [[ Inscriptiones Graecae 12(3).452 (4th c.BC), “CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” [prev. cited] ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 sign from the gods, omen, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 94; τὰ ἀπὸ τῶν θεῶν σ. γενόμενα 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.81, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 244c, “Ap.” 40b, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; wonder, portent, [[ LXX.Exo.4.8, +others; σ. καὶ τέρατα 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.112.8, NT.Matt.24.24, NT.John.4.48, compare “IPE” [same place], 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 17.114; φόβηθρα καὶ σ. ἀπ᾽ οὐρανοῦ NT.Luke.21.11 ] LXX+2nd c.BC+]; especially of the constellations, regarded as signs, δύεται σημεῖα [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 529 (Lyric poetry), compare “Ion” 1157. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __3 sign or signal to do a thing, made by flags, ἀνέδεξε σημήϊον τοῖσι ἄλλοισι ἀνάγεσθαι he made signal for the rest to put to sea, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.128 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; signal for battle, τὰ σ. ἤρθη, κατεσπάσθη, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.49, 63, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; καθαιρεῖν τὸ σ. to take it down, strike the flag, as a sign of dissolving an assembly, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.36 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ τῆς ἐκκλησίας σ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 278 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὕστερος ἐλθεῖν τοῦ σ. [[ [prev. author] “V.” 690 ] Refs]: generally, signal, σ. ὑποδηλῶσαί τινι ὅτι.. [[ [prev. author] “Th.” 1011; τὰ σ. αὐτοῖς ἤρθη 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.42; τὸ σ. τοῦ πυρός, ὡς εἴρητο, ἀνέσχον [prev. work] 111 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; signal to commence work, [ἡ] τοῦ σημείου ἄρσις [[ “Ath.Mitt.” 35.403 (Pergam.)] Refs]; σημείῳ ἀβαστάκτῳ, σημείοις ἀβαστάκτοις with unremoved signal (s), of gymnasia, i.e. never closed, [[ “IGRom.” 4.446 ([prev. passage]), “Abh.Berl.Akad.” 1932(5).44([prev. passage], 2nd c.AD). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__4 standard or flag, on the admiral's ship, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.92 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; on the general's tent, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.5.13 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔξω τῶν σ. out of the lines, [[[prev. work] 8.3.19. ] Refs]
__4.b body of troops under one standard or flag, [[ “PAmh.” 2.39.2 (2nd c.BC);compare σημεία 1.2. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__5 landmark, boundary, limit, ἔξω τῶν σ. τοῦ ὑμετέρου ἐμπορίου out of the limits of your commercial port, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 35.28 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of milestones, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “C. Gracchus” 7, 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 2.13.9. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__6 device upon a shield, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.171, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1114 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; upon ships, figure-head, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 933, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.31, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 255 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__7 signet on ring, etc., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 952, “V.” 585, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 191d, +others, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.1.30, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 42.2, “PRev.Laws” 26.5 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; figure, image, Διὸς κτησίου [[ 3rd c.BC(?): Anticlides Historicus 13 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; badge, τρίαιναν σ. θεοῦ [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 218 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: plural, written characters, γράψαι σημήϊα.. φωνῆς [[ “IG” 14.1549 (from Rome). ] Refs]
__7.b plural (Doric dialect) σαμεῖα, stripes, [[[prev. work]5(1).1390.16 (Andania, 1st c.BC)] Refs 1st c.BC+]; clavi· σημεῖα, [[ “Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum” ] Refs]
__8 watchword, war-cry, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.69.8; ἀπὸ σ. ἑνὸς ἐπιστρέφειν τὰς ναῦς 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.90, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.2.28. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__9 birthmark or distinguishing feature, Wilcken [[ “Chr.” 76.14 (2nd c.AD), “Sammelb.” 15.27 (2nd c.AD), etc. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II sign, token, indication of anything that is or is to be, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1059, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1332; σ. φαίνεις ἐσθλὸς.. γεγώς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 24, compare “OT” 710; τέχνης σ. τῆς ἐμῆς [prev. author] “Ant.” 998; so later τὰ σ. τῶν καιρῶν NT.Matt.16.3, etc. ] NT+5th c.BC+]
__II.2 in reasoning, a sign or proof, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 369, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.6, 10, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.25, etc.; τούτων ὑμῖν σημεῖα δείξω 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.103, compare 3.46; τάδε τὰ σ. ὡς.. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 1.5; σ. εἰ.. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 520e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅτι ἀγαθὸς ἦν.., τοῦτο μέγιστον σ. [[ [prev. author] “Min.” 321b ] Refs]; τὸ μὴ ἐκδυθῆναι οὐδὲν σ. ἐστι is no proof to the contrary, [[ 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.2.5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also, instance, example, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 20 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σημεῖον δέ· to introduce an argument, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.149, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.86,107, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.3 in the Logic of [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus ] Refs 4th c.BC+], a sign used as a probable argument in proof of a conclusion, opposed to τεκμήριον (a demonstrative or certain proof), [[ “APr.” 70a11, “SE” 167b9, “Rh.” 1357a33. ] Refs]
__II.3.b in Stoic and Epicurean philosophical, sign as observable basis of inference to the unobserved or unobservable, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 2p.43U., 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 27, +others, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 8.142, +others] Refs 4th c.BC+]; περὶ σημείων (uncertain meaning), title of work by Zeno, [[ “Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta” 1.14. ] Refs]
__II.4 in Medicine texts, symptom, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 3.6, 15, 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν” 1.9, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 1.313, 18(2).306. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.4.b = Latin lenticula, a kind of skin-eruption, [[ 1st c.AD: Celsus Medicus 6.5.1. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II.5 plural, shorthand symbols, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cat.Mi.” 23, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “περὶ τῶν ἰδίων βιβλίων” 1, “POxy.” 724.3 (2nd c.AD), 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 42.25. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II.6 critical mark, [[ 7th c.AD: Hephaestio Grammaticus “Poëm.” p.73C., 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 3.65. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__III ={στιγμή}, mathematical point, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Posteriora” 76b5, “Ph.” 240b3, 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra “Def.” 1, +others] Refs 4th c.BC+]; also ς. (with or without χρόνου) point of time, instant, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Caelo” 283a11, “Ph.” 262b2f ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III.2 in Prosody and Music, unit of time, [[ 3rd c.AD(?): Aristides Quintilianus Musicus 1.14, 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor “Proll. Heph.” 5. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
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