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.
3. stud, LXX Ca.1.11.
5.= cicatricis signum, Gloss.