The corpus record

ψῆγ-μα

psegma · τό

that which is rubbed

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Where it lives

Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Histories 8 · 0.44/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

that which is rubbed, scraped off, shavings, scrapings, chips, dust, motes

that which is rubbed or scraped off, shavings, scrapings, chips, ψ. χρυσοῦ gold-dust, Hdt. 4.195; so without χρυσοῦ, Id. 1.93, 3.94 sq.; ψ. χρυσότευκτον Eub. 20; ψ. ἀργυρᾶ Inscr.Délos 442B 89 (ii B.C.); πυρωθὲν ψ., of dust and ashes, A. Ag. 442 (lyr.); of wood, τὰ τῶν αἰγείρων ψ. Philostr. Im. 1.11; ἥλων ψ., = χαλκοῦ ἄνθος, Dsc. 5.77; μὴ διαλύεσθαι μέχρι ἐλαχίστου ψήγματος (of gum) Id. 3.22; of motes in a sunbeam, Arist. Cael. 313a20, cf. 304a21, Plu. QConv. 2.722a, and v. τίλα II.

In the wild

ψῆγμα · psēgma Aeschylus, Agamemnon 437–444
ψηγμάτων · psēgmatōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.3 (DIORISIS sentence 1103)
ψήγματος · psēgmatos Herodotus, Histories 1.93.1 (DIORISIS sentence 676)
ψήγματος · psēgmatos Herodotus, Histories 3.94.2 (DIORISIS sentence 3619)
ψῆγμα · psēgma Herodotus, Histories 3.95.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3622)
ψῆγμα · psēgma Herodotus, Histories 3.98.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3639)

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