σωμάτιον

English (LSJ)

τό, Dim. of σῶμα,

   A small body, poor body, Isoc.Ep.4.11, Epicur.Fr.181, Gnathaena ap.Ath.13.584b, etc.; ἀσθένεια τοῦ σ. PHerc.1041.1; of a sick man's body, PCair.Zen.254 (iii B.C.), Gal.13.1025, cf. Agathin. ap. Orib.10.7.4; of an animal, Arist.Fr.339; of an infant, Sor.1.117.    2 corpse, Plu.2.119b, Pap.inStud.Ital.12(1935).99 (ii A.D.), PLips.30.13 (iii A.D.), Hdn.2.1.1.    3 slave, PSI6.602.2 (iii B.C.), PCair.Zen.93.11 (iii B.C.), PUniv.Giss.20.14 (ii A.D.), etc.    II of things,    1 small body, corpuscle, Arist.de An.409a11, HA525a2.    2 pl., padding, used by actors to improve their figure, Pl. Com.256, Luc.JTr.41, Poll.2.235,4.115.    3 book, volume, Heraclit.All.1, Porph.Plot.26; structure of a poem, Longin.9.13.    4 text, opp. signature, PGen.11.18,68.18 (iv A.D.).    5 instalment of a sum due, PEleph.14.21 (iii B.C.).-σωμᾰτ-σωμάτειον is freq. v.l., cf. CIG2829.9, 2835.5 (Aphrodisias).