σημεία, ἡ,
military standard, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.32.6, LXX.Isa.30.17, “Mon.Anc.” 15.23, 16.3. ] LXX+2nd c.BC+]
__b = Latin vexillum, as a decoration, [[ “OGI” 560.13 (Tlos, 1st c.AD). ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__2 a body of troops under one standard, the Roman manipulus, [[ “UPZ” 14.23, +others (2nd c.BC), “Sammelb.” 1436.10 (2nd c.BC), 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.33.9, 3.113.3, 6.24.5, etc.; compare σημεῖον 1.4b. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__II image of Emperor on standard, [[ 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 2.9.2. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__III ={σῆμα} [[ 5 (on shield), Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 963. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV ={σημεῖον, διαξέσας σημείας} (on stone) [[ “IG” 7.3073.138 (from Lebadea). (The spellings σημεία as in “IG” [same place], “UPZ” 18.5 (2nd c.BC), and good Mss. of 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus (see. vol. 4p.xxi 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus -W.), 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 8.64, 9.13, +others, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 20.90, and σημέα as in “UPZ” 14.23, “Sammelb.” [same place], “Mon.Anc.” [prev. cited], “Abh.Berl.Akad.” 1932 (5).41 (Pergam., 2nd c.AD), are probably the only early spellings: σημαία which is found in 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Fabius Maximus” 12 and as variant in 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 8.65, +others, is probably _falsa lectio_ for{σημέα}.) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]