σημεία · sēmeia — LSJ
military standard, Plb. 2.32.6, LXX Is. 30.17, Mon.Anc. 15.23, 16.3.
= Lat. vexillum, as a decoration, OGI 560.13 (Tlos, i A.D.).
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.
image of Emperor on standard, J. BJ 2.9.2.
= σῆμα 5 (on shield), Sch. Ar. Ra. 963.
= 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. 4 p. 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 v.l. in Plb., D.H. 8.65, al., is prob. f.l. for σημέα.)