The primary headword, an adjective in the masculine nominative singular, is a late formation from the stem of the verb seba/zomai ('venerate'). Inter alia, it used as the Greek version of the Latin title Augustus.
[1] = Synagoge sigma36, Photius sigma108 Theodoridis; cf. Hesychius sigma315, Etymologicum Gudianum 497.33.
[2] = Synagoge sigma37, Photius sigma107 Theodoridis; Cunningham (in his edition of the Synagoge) cites this as the first of four entries beginning with seb- in mss vgA of the Lexicon of Cyril. This supplementary lemma is present indicative active, third person singular, of the related verb sebi/zw. Theodoridis (in his edition of Photius) reasonably suggests Euripides, Medea 155, as a source. (The only other literary attestation is in Georgius Grammaticus, Carmina Anacreontea 1.42.)
[3] From commentary on the quoted passage, Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 105-106, which contains this aorist active infinitive of sebi/zw (see n. 2); cf. the scholia thereto. In place of the Suda's eu)pi/stws ('quick to obey'), Wilson's OCT and other modern editions read eu)pei/stws ('easily persuaded'), but the former is also found in the text of the scholia. This part of the entry is lacking, Adler reports, in mss AV; it is probably copied from sigma 183, where it forms the entire body of the entry. See also under sigma 175.