σημεία: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[military standard]], Plb.2.32.6, [[LXX]] ''Is.''30.17, ''Mon.Anc.'' 15.23, 16.3.<br><span class="bld">b</span> = Lat. [[vexillum]], as a decoration, ''OGI''560.13 (Tlos, i A.D.).<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[a body of troops under one standard]], the Roman [[manipulus]], ''UPZ''14.23, al. (ii B.C.), ''Sammelb.''1436.10 (ii B.C.), Plb.1.33.9, 3.113.3, 6.24.5, etc.; cf. [[σημεῖον]] 1.4b.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[image]] of Emperor on standard, J.''BJ''2.9.2.<br><span class="bld">III</span> = [[σῆμα]] 5 (on shield), Sch.Ar.''Ra.'' 963.<br><span class="bld">IV</span> = [[σημεῖον, διαξέσας σημείας]] (on stone) ''IG''7.3073.138 (Lebadea). (The spellings [[σημεία]] as in ''IG''l.c., ''UPZ''18.5 (ii B.C.), and good Mss. of Plb. (v. vol.4p.xxi B.-W.), D.H.8.64, 9.13, al., D.S.20.90, and [[σημέα]] as in ''UPZ''14.23, ''Sammelb.'' [[l.c.]], ''Mon.Anc.'' Il.cc., ''Abh.Berl.Akad.''1932 (5).41 (Pergam., ii A.D.), are prob. the only early spellings: [[σημαία]] which is found in Plu.''Fab.''12 and as [[varia lectio|v.l.]] in Plb., D.H.8.65, al., is prob. [[falsa lectio|f.l.]] for [[σημέα]].)