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ὑποσημαίνω ,
A.throw out hints of, intimate, τι Th.1.82; “χρεῶν ἀποκοπάς” Pl.R.566a; “χελιδὼν ὑ. τι” Ael.NA1.52, cf. Plu.Per.11: abs., indicate, “καθάπερ τοὔνομα αὐτὸ ὑ.” Arist.EN1122a23, cf. 1112a16.
2. in military sense, σάλπιγγι ὑ. make signal by sound of trumpet, “τῇ σάλπιγγι σιωπὴ ὑπεσημάνθη” Th.6.32; also “ὑπεσήμηνεν ἡ σάλπιγξ ἀνακλητικόν” Plu.Comp.Pel.Marc.3: abs., “ἡ σάλπιγξ ὑ.” D.C.49.9, cf. Polyaen.1.35.1.
3. intr., to be just visible, of the whites of the eyes, Archig. ap. Orib.46.26.4.
II. sign, “ἐπιστολῇ” PSI5.471.3 (v/vi A. D.); “πιττάκιον” PKlein.Form.1033 (vi A. D.).
III. Med., observe, “τὠυτὸ σχῆμα ἔχοντα” Hp.Morb.3.16.
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 (7):
    • Plato, Republic, 566a
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.82
    • Thucydides, Histories, 6.32
    • Plutarch, Pericles, 11
    • Plutarch, Comparison of Pelopidas and Marcellus, 3
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 1.52
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 49.9
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