σπάργᾰν-ον, τό,
(σπάργω) band for swathing infants, [[[prev. work]151,306, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 1.38 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: mostly in plural, swaddling-clothes, [[ hymnus ad Mercurium 237, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.114; παῖς ἔτ᾽ ὢν ἐν σπαργάνοις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 755, compare 529, 759, “Ag.” 1606; εἰς σπάργανά μ᾽ αὐτὸς ἔθηκεν “epigram Gr.” 314.6 (Smyrna, 3rd c.AD)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκ πρώτων σ. ab incunabulis, [[ 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 1.41 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τὰ τῆς γεννήσεως εὐτελῆ σ. a mean origin, [[ 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 7.1.2:] Refs 2nd c.AD+] —hence,
__2 in Trag. and Comedy texts, objects left with an exposed child, the marks by which a person's true birth and family are identified (Latin crepundia, monumenta), [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1035, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 15, 4th c.AD: Donatus, Aelius Grammaticus Latinus ad Ter. “Eun.” 753] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so probably τούτου (i.e. τοῦ Τηλέφου) δὸς.. μοι τὰ σ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 431. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II a plant,= ὠκιμοειδές, falsa lectio for{σπαργάνιον}, Ps.-[[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 4.28. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]