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ἔμ-βλημα , ατος, τό,
A.insertion, τὸ εἰς τὸν σίδηρον ἔ. τοῦ ξύλου the shaft fitting into the spear-head, Plu.Mar.25.
2. chased or embossed ornament used in decoration of plate, “τὰ ἀργυρᾶ τὰ χρυσοῦν τι ἔ. ἔχοντα” D.C.57.15, cf. Cic.Verr.4.17.37, etc.
3. graft, Poll.1.241.
4. Lat. emblema, mosaic, Lucil.85 Marx, Varro RR3.2.4.
5. inner sole put into the shoe in winter, etc., Ph.Bel.102.39.
6. sluice-gate, PThead. 24.8 (iv A.D.).
7. payment, PCair.Zen.22.22 (iii B.C.), BGU1040.24 (ii A.D.); fine, BCH8.307 (Delos).
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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    • Plutarch, Caius Marius, 25
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 57.15
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