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ἀποσημ-αίνω ,
A.announce by signs or signals, give notice, “περί τινος” Hdt.5.20: abs., give a sign or signal, Pl.Euthd.276b; “νοσήματα ἀ.” show themselves, Arist.Pr.954b30.
2. c. acc., indicate by signs or symptoms, “οὐδὲν ἀ.” Hp.Epid.1.9; = δηλῶδαι , S.Fr. 676; denote, represent, J.AJ3.7.7, Plu.Sull.7, etc.; indicate, J.AJ1.3.8, al.; declare, ib.1.8.1,al.:—Med., show by signs or proofs, Hdt.9.71; guess by signs, Ael.NA6.58.
II. ἀ. εἴς τινα allude to him, Th.4.27, cf. Plu.2.177b; “πρός τινα” Philostr.V A6.10.
III. give adverse signs, be unpropitious, τινί ib.2.33.
IV. in Med., seal up as confiscated, sequestrate, Ar.Fr.432, X.HG2.3.21; of persons, proscribe, ib.2.4.13 (also Act., ἀποσημανῶ: ἀποδιώξω, Hsch.).
2. generally, seal up, “γράμματα” Hdn.4.12.6.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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