σπάργᾰν-ον · spargan-on — LSJ
band for swathing infants, swaddling-clothes, ab incunabulis, origin
band for swathing infants, h.Merc. 151, 306, Pi. N. 1.38: mostly in pl., swaddling-clothes, h.Merc. 237, Pi. P. 4.114; παῖς ἔτʼ ὢν ἐν σπαργάνοις A. Ch. 755, cf. 529, 759, Ag. 1606; εἰς σπάργανά μʼ αὐτὸς ἔθηκεν Epigr.Gr. 314.6 (Smyrna, iii A.D.); ἐκ πρώτων σ. ab incunabulis, S.E. M. 1.41; τὰ τῆς γεννήσεως εὐτελῆ σ. a mean origin, Hdn. 7.1.2:—hence,
2 objects left with an exposed child, the marks by which a personʼs true birth and family are identified
in Trag. and Com., objects left with an exposed child, the marks by which a personʼs true birth and family are identified (Lat. crepundia, monumenta), S. OT 1035, Men. Pk. 15, Donat. ad Ter. Eun. 753; so prob. τούτου (sc. τοῦ Τηλέφου) δὸς . . μοι τὰ σ. Ar. Ach. 431.
II
a plant, = ὠκιμοειδές, f.l. for σπαργάνιον, Ps.-Dsc. 4.28.