LOGOI

The corpus record

δεῖγμα

deigma · τό

sample, pattern

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Where it lives

  • Jude 1 · 22.47/10k
  • Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
  • Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
  • Phaedo 1 · 0.46/10k
  • Laws 3 · 0.29/10k
  • Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
  • Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
  • Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
  • Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

sample, pattern, as evidence, of sample, sign

sample, pattern, καρπῶν Isoc. 15.54, cf. POxy. 113.5 (ii A.D.); τοῦ βίου Ar. Ach. 988; λαβὼν δʼ Ἄδραστον δεῖγμα τῶν ἐμῶν λόγων taking him as evidence of . ., E. Supp. 354; μὴ . . αὐτοὶ καθʼ ὑμῶν αὐτῶν δ. τοιοῦτον ἐξενέγκητε D. 21.183; τοῦτο τὸ δ. ἐξενηνοχὼς περὶ αὐτοῦ Id. 19.12, cf. Pl. Lg. 788c; δείγματος εἵνεκα by way of sample, D. 23.65; δείγματος χάριν S.E. M. 11.40; δ. προφέρειν, ἐκτίθεσθαι, παρασχεῖν, Pl. Lg. 718b, Plb. 4.24.9, D.H. Rh. 6.5; δ. μικροψυχίας Men. Georg.Fr. 3; δ. ψυχῆς sign o

b plan, sketch

plan, sketch, PGiss. 15.3.

c sense-evidence

sense-evidence, τὰ ἐπὶ τοῦ ὀργάνου δείγματα Epicur. Nat. 11.7.

2 mart, bazaar

mart, bazaar, in the Piraeus, X. HG 5.1.21, Lys. Fr. 75.6; περιεπάτουν ἐν τῷ δ. τῷ ἡμετέρῳ D. 35.29; elsewh., IPE 1.16B49 (Olbia), Aen. Tact. 30.2, Plb. 5.88.8, D.S. 19.45.

b

metaph., δ. δικῶν Ar. Eq. 979.

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Where it came from

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