A.= τέκμαρ 11 (cf. Arist.Rh.1357b8,9), a sure sign or token, Hdt.2.13, 9.100, etc.; “τεκμηρίοισιν ἐξ οἰμωγμάτων” A.Ag.1366; καὶ μὴν στίβοι γε, δεύτερον τ. Id.Ch.205; θανόντος πίστ᾽ ἔχων τ. S.El.774; ἐμφανῆ τ. ib.1109; ἀσφαλὲς τ. E.Rh. 94; “ταῦτα δὴ πάντα τ. ὅτι . . ” Hp.VM8: Medic., a sure symptom, Id.Prog.25, Sor.1.33, Gal.18(2).306.
2. simply sign, symbol, “τοῦ φιλαποδήμου” Sor.Vit.Hippocr.12.
II. proof (properly of an argumentative kind, opp. direct evidence, Is.4.12, 8.6), A.Eu.485, Pl.Tht.158b, al.; opp. τὰ εἰκότα, Antipho 2.4.10; but οὐκ εἰκότα τ. Id.4.4.2; “τ. δίκαιον” Id.1.10; τ. τινός proof of a thing, A.Eu.662, Ar. Av.482, etc.; τ. δὲ τοῦδε τὸν Ὅμηρον λαβέ (i.e. the case of Homer) Philem.97.5; also “τ. περὶ τῶν μελλόντων” And.3.2, cf. Pl.Tht.185b; τ. τινὸς δοῦναι, παρασχέσθαι, A.Pr.826, X.Ages.6.1; “λέξω” A.Eu. 447; δείξω, ἐπιδείξω, ἀποδεῖξαι, ib.662, Supp.53 (lyr.), Pl.Tht.158b; “τ. ἀποφαίνειν περὶ σοφίας” Id.Hp.Ma.283a; “ἔχειν” A.Supp.271.
2. τεκμήριον δέ as an independent clause, now the proof of it is this (which follows), take this as a proof, Th.2.39, D.20.10, etc.; more fully, τ. δέ μοι τούτου τόδε: αἱ μὲν γὰρ φαίνονται κτλ. Hdt.2.58; τ. δὲ τούτου καὶ τόδε: παρὰ μὲν Κύρου κτλ. X.An.1.9.29; χρῆσθαι τεκμηρίῳ ὅτι . . （ὅτι introducing the reason, not the fact) And.1.24, cf. Lys.30.15.
