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στι?́γ-μα , ατος, τό,
A.tattoo-mark, Hdt.5.35, Arist.HA585b33, GA721b32, IG42(1).121.48, al. (Epid., iv B.C.), Polyaen.1.24; ς. ἱρά, showing that the persons so marked were devoted to the service of the temple, Hdt. 2.113; esp. of a slave, Pl.Com.187, Ps.-Phoc.225, Cod.Theod.10. 22.4; or a soldier, ibid., Aët.8.12; “στίγματα ἐξαίρει βατράχειον καταπλασθέν” Dsc.Eup. 1.110: so metaph., “ς. Ἰησοῦ” Ep.Gal.6.17 (pl.); ἀνωφελῆ ς., of inscribed laws, D.Chr.80.5.
2. generally, mark, spot, as on the dragon's skin, Hes.Sc.166, cf. Paus.8.2.7, 8.4.7.
3. stud, LXX Ca.1.11.
4. ς. χρυσοῦν colour of gold, Ps.Democr. ap.Zos.Alch.p.119 B., cf.p.126 B.
5.= cicatricis signum, Gloss.
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 (8):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.35
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.113
    • Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, 166
    • New Testament, Galatians, 6.17
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8.2.7
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8.4.7
    • Old Testament, Canticles, 1.11
    • Dio Chrysostom, Orationes, 80.5
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