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σι_γάω , Dor. 2sg.
A.“σιγῇς” Ar.Ach.778; Cyrenaic inf. “σιγέν” Berl.Sitzb. 1927.170; 1sg. opt. σιγῷμ（ι) E.Hipp.336: fut. “-ήσομαι” S.OC113, 980, E.Ba.801, Ar.Av.1684, etc.; later “-ήσω” AP9.27 (Arch. or Parmen.), D.Chr.37.42, Charito 1.10: pf. “σεσίγηκα” Aeschin.3.218:— Pass., fut. “σιγηθήσομαι” E.IT1076; “σεσιγήσομαι” Pl.Ep.311c: aor. “ἐσιγήθην” E.Supp.298, Aeschin.2.86: pf. σεσίγημαι (v. infr.): (σιγή):— keep silence, used by Hom. only in imper. σίγα, hush! be still! Il.14.90, Od.17.393; “σιγᾶν” h.Merc.93, Hdt.8.61,110; but freq.in Pi., Trag., and Att., as Pi.N.10.29, A.Pr.200, etc.; “ς. περί τινος” E.Hipp.312; “πρὸς οὓς δεῖ” Pl.Phdr.276a; πρὸς τοῦτο, ἐν τούτῳ, X.Cyr.5.5.20, An.5.6.27.
2. metaph. of things, “σιγῶν δ᾽ ὄλεθρος καὶ μέγα φωνοῦντ᾽ . . ἀμαθύνει” A.Eu.935 (anap.); “σύριγγες οὐ σιγῶσιν” Id.Supp.181; “σίγησε δ᾽ αἰθήρ” E.Ba.1084; “ς. πόντος, ς. ἀῆται, ἁ δ᾽ ἐμὰ οὐ ς. ἀνία” Theoc.2.38:—in E.Fr.781.13, τὰ σιγῶντ᾽ ὀνόματ᾽ . . δαιμόνων seems to be = τὰ ἄρρητα, secret, mystical:—Pass., μέμψομαι σιωπὴν ὡς ἐσιλγήθη κακῶς I shall impute as a fault that silence was kept, Id.Supp.298; also τί σεσίγηται δόμος Ἀδμήτου; why is it all silent? Id.Alc.78; σιγῶντα λέγειν, λέγοντα σιγᾶν, phrases illustrating a logical fallacy, Pl.Euthd. 300b, Arist.SE166a13.
II. trans., hold silent, keep secret, Pi.Fr. 81, A.Pr.106,441, Ag.36, Hdt.7.104 (s. v. l.), etc.:—Pass., to be kept silent or secret, “σεσιγαμένον χρῆμα” Pi.O.9.103; “ὁ θάνατος . . ἐσιγήθη” Hdt.5.21; “σιγώμενος” S.Fr.653; ἐσιγάθη δ᾽ ἂν ὑφορβός would never have been heard of, Theoc.16.54.
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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