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σήκ-ωμα , Dor. σάκωμα [α_], ατος, τό, （σηκόω)
A.a weight in the balance, standard weight, IG22.1013.8, Hyp.Fr.271 (ap.Poll.4.172); σμικρὸν τὸ σὸν ς. προστίθης slight is the weight that you throw into the scale, E.Heracl.690; ς. μολίβδινα leaden weights or counterpoises, Plb.8.5.9; τὸ κατόπιν ς. τῆς προβολῆς, of the spear, Id.18.29.3; makeweight, Id.18.24.5.
b. a standard measure, [κρότωνος] PCair.Zen.670.7 (iii B.C.); “ς. σιτηροῦ ἡμεδίμνου” SIG2508 (Delos, i B.C.); jar or measure of wine, POxy.1720.5 (iv A.D.), 1896.19 (vi A.D.), PLond.ined.2115 (vi A.D.).
2. momentum, Ael.Tact.13.2.
3. return, recompense, Phalar.Ep.134.
II. = σηκός 11, sacred enclosure, E.El.1274, IG3.1979.
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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