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  "headword": "σ",
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      "definition": "",
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          "definition": "IG 14.2420, and prob. of the oldest Gr. alphabets (corresponding to the twenty-first Hebrew letter <i>shin</i> ש, Phoenician 𐤔, Syria 6.103), but eighteenth of the Ion. alphabet: as numeral σʹ = 200, but ͵σ = 200,000: a semi-vowel, Arist. Po. 1456b28, cf. Pl. Tht. 203b.",
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        },
        {
          "label": "A",
          "definition": "Μ (which is however the old eighteenth letter, q.v.), also Σ and 𐊖 [Lycian s character]; compared to a twisted curl, E. Fr. 382.7, Theodect. 6; to a Scythian bow, Agatho 4; after this, but yet early, it took the shape of a semicircle Ϲ, whence Aeschrio ( Fr. 1) calls the new moon τὸ καλὸν οὐρανοῦ νέον σῖγμα: hence the orchestra is called τὸ τοῦ θεάτρου σῖγμα, Phot., AB 286: and Lat. writers used <i>sigma</i> of a <i>semicircular couch,</i> Mart. 10.48.6, etc.; cf. σιγμοειδής. The rare form [see print copy] is used in the numbering of building-stones in Berl.Sitzb. 1888.1234, 1242 (Pergam.). From final ς must be distinguished the character ϛ = 6, v. ϝ ϝ (sixth letter).",
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        },
        {
          "label": "B",
          "definition": "σίγμα ( σῖγμα) was usu. indeclinable, τοῦ σῖγμα Pl. l.c., Cra. 402e, 427a, Ath. 10.455c, Lyd. Mens. 1.21 (v.l. σίγματος) ; τῷ σῖγμα Gal. UP 2.14, al.; τῶν σῖγμα Pl.Com. 30; τὰ σίγμα τὰ ἐπὶ τῶν ἀσπίδων X. HG 4.4.10, cf. Hellad. ap. Phot. Bibl. p.532 B.; later declined, τοῦ σίγματος Eust. 1389.15; σίγμασιν Id. 905.7.",
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              "data": {
                "quote": "τοῦ σῖγμα",
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              }
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              "data": {
                "quote": "; τῷ σῖγμα",
                "ref": "Gal. UP 2.14",
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              }
            },
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              "urn": "urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:citations.atlas_v1:lsj-124586",
              "data": {
                "quote": "τῶν σῖγμα",
                "ref": "Pl.Com. 30",
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              }
            },
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              "urn": "urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:citations.atlas_v1:lsj-124587",
              "data": {
                "quote": "τὰ σίγμα τὰ ἐπὶ τῶν ἀσπίδων",
                "ref": "X. HG 4.4.10",
                "urn": "urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0032.tlg001:4.4.perseus-grc2.10"
              }
            },
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              "urn": "urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:citations.atlas_v1:lsj-124588",
              "data": {
                "quote": "τοῦ σίγματος",
                "ref": "Eust. 1389.15",
                "urn": "urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4083.tlg001.perseus-grc2:1389.15"
              }
            },
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              "urn": "urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:citations.atlas_v1:lsj-124589",
              "data": {
                "quote": "σίγμασιν",
                "ref": "Id. 905.7",
                "urn": "urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4083.tlg001.perseus-grc2:905.7"
              }
            }
          ],
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                  "label": "2",
                  "definition": "σάν [ ᾰ], τό, τὰ οὐνόματά σφι (sc. τοῖσι Πέρσῃσι) τελευτῶσι πάντα ἐς τὠυτὸ γράμμα, τὸ Δωριέες μὲν σὰν καλέουσι, Ἴωνες δὲ σίγμα Hdt. 1.139, cf. Pi. Dith.Oxy. 1604 Fr. 1 ii 3, Ath. 11.467a; as name of the fourth and tenth letters in Θρασύμαχος, and of the sixth in Διονύσο ( υ), Epigr. ap. Ath. 10.454f, Achae. 33.4; cf. the compd. σαμ-φόρας: σάν and σίγμα were evidently pronounced alike; it is conjectured that σάν is originally the name of the old eighteenth letter.",
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                      "data": {
                        "quote": "τελευτῶσι πάντα ἐς τὠυτὸ γράμμα, τὸ Δωριέες μὲν σὰν καλέουσι, Ἴωνες δὲ σίγμα",
                        "ref": "Hdt. 1.139",
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