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σι_γ-ή , Dor. σιγά , ἡ,
A.silence, ς. ἔχειν keep silence, Hdt.1.86; ς. ποιήσασθαι make silence, Id.6.130; “παρέχειν” S.Tr.1115, etc.; “ς. φυλάσσετε” E.IA542; “ς. τῶνδε θήσομαι πέρι” Id.Med.66; “γύναι, γυναιξὶ κόσμον ἡ ς. φέρει” S.Aj.293; “κόσμος ἡ ς. τε καὶ τὰ παῦρ᾽ ἔπη” Id.Fr.64; “ὦ παῖ, σιώπα: πόλλ᾽ ἔχει ς. καλά” Id.Fr.81; πολλῶν φάρμακον κακῶν ς. Carc. 7.2; δυσμενὴς τῇ ς. Hdt.7.237; ἡ ἄγαν ς. S.Ant.1251, cf. 1256: pl., “σιγαὶ ἀνέμων” E.IA10 (anap.); “σιγαὶ . . τῶν νεωτέρων παρὰ πρεσβυτέροις” Pl.R.425b.
b. in a mystical or religious sense, Aristeas 95, Apoc.8.1; “ς. σύμβολον θεοῦ ζῶντος” PMag.Par.1.559.
II. σιγῇ, as Adv., in silence, the only case used by Hom., “πάντες ἥατο σιγῇ” Il. 19.255, cf. 3.8, al.; also διὰ σιγῆς, μετὰ ς., Pl.Grg.450c, Sph.264a; “σὺν σιγῇ” Critias 25.22: like σῖγα, as an exclam., “σιγῇ νῦν” be silent now! Od.15.440.
2. in an undertone, in a whisper, secretly (cf. “σῖγα” 2), “ς. λόγον ἐποιέετο” Hdt.8.74; “τὰ ς. βουλευόμενα” X.Mem.1.1.19; σιγῇ ἔχειν τι keep it secret, Hdt.9.93; σιγᾷ καλύψαι, σιγῇ στέγειν, κεύθειν, Pi.N.9.7, S.OT341, Tr.989 (anap.).
3. c. gen., σιγῇ τινος unknown to him, Hdt.2.140, E.Med.587.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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