σπάργανον: Difference between revisions

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