This, what they [i.e. ordinary people] call 'to seal up/secure', the orators speak of as 'to join in signing'.
Lycurgus in the [speech]
Concerning the Priestess [writes]: "[...] so as to [sc. make it] enjoined by decree and for the priestess to join in signing the documents".[1]
Also [sc. attested is]
su/sshmon, [meaning] a sign.[2]
*susshmai/nesqai: o(\ kalou=si katasfragi/sasqai, tou=to oi( r(h/tores susshmai/nesqai le/gousi. *lukou=rgos e)n tw=| *peri\ i(erei/as: w(/ste prostetagme/non e)pi\ yhfi/smatos kai\ th\n i(e/reian susshmai/nesqai ta\ grammatei=a. kai\ *su/sshmon, to\ shmei=on.
The primary headword, which occurs in the quotation given, is present middle infinitive of the compound verb
susshmai/nw.
[1] cf.
Lexicon Vindobonense sigma8;
Lycurgus fr. 31 Conomis (51 Baiter-Sauppe).
[2] Likewise, according to Adler, in the
Ambrosian Lexicon (956), and in reference to the occurrence of this neuter noun in
Mark 14.44 (on Judas's betrayal of Christ).
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