σῑγ-ή,
Doric dialect σιγά, ἡ, silence, σ. ἔχειν keep silence, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.86 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. ποιήσασθαι make silence, [[ [prev. author] 6.130; παρέχειν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1115, etc.; σ. φυλάσσετε 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 542; σ. τῶνδε θήσομαι πέρι [prev. author] “Med.” 66; γύναι, γυναιξὶ κόσμον ἡ σ. φέρει 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 293; κόσμος ἡ σ. τε καὶ τὰ παῦρ᾽ ἔπη [prev. author] “fragment” 64; ὦ παῖ, σιώπα· πόλλ᾽ ἔχει σ. καλά [prev. author] “fragment” 81 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πολλῶν φάρμακον κακῶν σ. [[ 5th c.BC: Carcinus Tragicus 7.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δυσμενὴς τῇ σ. [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.237 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ ἄγαν σ. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1251, compare 1256: _plural_, σιγαὶ ἀνέμων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 10 (_anapaest meter_); σιγαὶ.. τῶν νεωτέρων παρὰ πρεσβυτέροις 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 425b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__b in a mystical or religious sense,[[ Aristeas 95, NT.Rev.8.1; σ. σύμβολον θεοῦ ζῶντος “PMag.Par.” 1.559. ] NT]
__II σιγῇ, as adverb, in silence, the only case used by [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, πάντες ἥατο σιγῇ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.255, compare 3.8, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+]; also διὰ σιγῆς, μετὰ σ., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 450c, “Sph.” 264a; σὺν σιγῇ 5th c.BC: Critias Philosophus, Tragicus, Elegiacus 25.22 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: like{σῖγα}, as an exclamation, σιγῇ νῦν be silent now! [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.440. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II.2 in an undertone, in a whisper, secretly [[compare (σῖγα 2), σ. λόγον ἐποιέετο 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.74; τὰ σ. βουλευόμενα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.1.19 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σιγῇ ἔχειν τι keep it secret, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.93 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σιγᾷ καλύψαι, σιγῇ στέγειν, κεύθειν, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 9.7, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 341, “Tr.” 989 (_anapaest meter_). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]