σπάργανον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, ([[σπάργω]]) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[band for swathing infants]], ib.151,306, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>1.38</span>: mostly in pl., [[swaddling-clothes]], h.Merc.237, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>4.114</span>; παῖς ἔτ' ὢν ἐν σπαργάνοις <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>755</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">529</span>,<span class="bibl">759</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ag.</span> 1606</span>; εἰς σπάργανά μ' αὐτὸς ἔθηκεν <span class="title">Epigr.Gr.</span>314.6 (Smyrna, iii A.D.); [[ἐκ πρώτων σπαργάνων]] = [[from the cradle]], [[ab incunabulis]], <span class="bibl">S.E.<span class="title">M.</span>1.41</span>; <b class="b3">τὰ τῆς γεννήσεως εὐτελῆ σπάργανα</b> = [[a mean origin]], <span class="bibl">Hdn.7.1.2</span>:—hence, </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> in Trag. and Com., <b class="b2">objects left with an exposed child, the marks by which a person's true birth and family are identified</b> (Lat. [[crepundia]], [[monumenta]]), <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>1035</span>, <span class="bibl">Men.<span class="title">Pk.</span>15</span>, Donat. ad Ter.<span class="title">Eun.</span>753; so prob. [[τούτου]] (sc. <b class="b3">τοῦ Τηλέφου</b>) <b class="b3"> δὸς . . μοι τὰ σ</b>. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span>431</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> a plant,= [[ὠκιμοειδής|ὠκιμοειδές]], f.l. for [[σπαργάνιον]], Ps.-Dsc.4.28.</span>