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σημει-όω (Dor. σα_μ- IG5(1).1390.71 (Andania, i B.C.)),= σημαίνω,
A.mark (by milestones), Plb.3.39.8（Pass.), cf. 1.47.1; seal, “ἐπιστολὰς -ωμένας σφραγῖδι” D.H.4.57:—Pass., to be marked or stamped, IG l.c.
2. give a signal, impers. in Pass., ὅταν σημειωθῇ Aen. Tact.22.23 (cod. M).
II. Med., mark for oneself, note down, “ὅτι . . ” Thphr.CP1.21.7; “τόπον” Plb.21.28.9: abs., Δυμᾶς σεσημείωμαι (signed) Δυμᾶς, Ostr.Bodl. iii 280 (i A.D.), cf. ii 25 (i A.D.), etc.; take notice of, pay honour to . . , “ὅπως ὁ δῆμος φαίνηται τοὺς καλοὺς κἀγαθοὺς τῶν ἀνδρῶν σημειούμενος” Inscr.Perg.252.28.
2. interpret anything as a sign or portent, Plb.5.78.2, Str.9.2.11; infer as from a sign, “ὁ ἐκ τῆς ἐναργείας -ούμενος περὶ τῶν ἀδήλων” Phld. Sign.15, cf. Epicur.Ep.2p.47U., S.E.M.8.271:—Medic., diagnose, Antyll. ap. Orib.45.2.1, Gal.18(2).851; later, examine, “σημειωσόμεθα κοπαρίῳ” Paul.Aeg.6.77; οἱ τοῦ -ουμένου δάκτυλοι ib.96.
3. in Gramm., of marginal marks, σημείωσαι,= nota bene, Hdn.Gr.1.87, al., freq. in Sch.:—in Pass., σημειοῦται δὲ ὅτι . . Sch.Il.Oxy.1086i17; τὰ σεσημειωμένα noted as exceptions, A.D.Pron.115.11, Choerob. in Theod.1.406 H.: fut. “σεσημειώσεται” A.D.Adv.166.14.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Strabo, Geography, 9.2.11
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.47.1
    • Polybius, Histories, 21.28.9
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.39.8
    • Polybius, Histories, 5.78.2
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 4.57
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