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σημεία , ἡ,
A.military standard, Plb.2.32.6, LXXIs.30.17, Mon.Anc. 15.23, 16.3.
b. = Lat. vexillum, as a decoration, OGI560.13 (Tlos, i A.D.).
2. a body of troops under one standard, the Roman manipulus, UPZ14.23, al. (ii B.C.), Sammelb.1436.10 (ii B.C.), Plb.1.33.9, 3.113.3, 6.24.5, etc.; cf. “σημεῖον” 1.4b.
II. image of Emperor on standard, J.BJ2.9.2.
III. = σῆμα 5 (on shield), Sch.Ar.Ra. 963.
IV. = σημεῖον, διαξέσας σημείας (on stone) IG7.3073.138 (Lebadea). (The spellings σημεία as in IGl.c., UPZ18.5 (ii B.C.), and good Mss. of Plb. (v. vol.4p.xxi B.-W.), D.H.8.64, 9.13, al., D.S.20.90, and σημέα as in UPZ14.23, Sammelb. l.c., Mon.Anc. Il.cc., Abh.Berl.Akad.1932 (5).41 (Pergam., ii A.D.), are prob. the only early spellings: σημαία which is found in Plu.Fab.12 and as v.l. in Plb., D.H.8.65, al., is prob. f.l. for σημέα.)
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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