ὑπόδειγ-μα, ατος, τό,
sign, token, indication, see reading in [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 2.2 (_plural_); φιλαγαθίας “IG” 22.1011.81. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 illustration, picture showing how something is to be done, [[ 1st c.BC: Apollonius Citiensis Medicus 2, 3. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__II pattern, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.17.8; μετανοίας LXX.Sir.44.16, cf. LXX.2Mac.6.28; ὑ. καὶ σκιά NT.Heb.8.5, compare 9.23; τὸ ὑ. τοῦ οἴκου LXX.Eze.42.15: in Inscrr., πρὸς ὑπόδειγμα ἀρετῆς “CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 2769,2774,2775d (add.), +others (from Aphrodisias)] NT+2nd c.BC+]; καλὸν ὑ. τῆς ἰδίας προαιρέσεως καταβαλλόμενος [[ “BMus.Inscription” 925b22 (Branchidae, 1st c.BC)] Refs 1st c.BC+]: but also ὑ. ἀπειθίας [[ “BGU” 747 ii 14 (2nd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ὑ. μελλόντων ἀσεβεῖν [[ NT.2Pet.2.6. ] NT]
__III example, instance, [[ Anthologia Graeca 6.342, 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 69.10, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 17, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιστολαί” 17, 5th c.AD: Hermias Alexandrinus Philosophus “in Platonis Phaedrum scholia” p.185 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus; ὑποδείγματος χάριν 2nd c.AD: Nicomachus Gerasenus Mathematicus “Arithmetica Introductio” 1.8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; specimen, [[ “BGU” 1141.43 (1st c.BC)] Refs 1st c.BC+], etc.: plural, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.8 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, +others:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —rejected as less correct than παράδειγμα by the Atticists, [[ 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 4. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]