episemon

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  1. In Greek antiquity, a device or badge, corresponding to the crest of later times, as that borne on the shield of a soldier, or that chosen as its distinguishing mark by a city, etc. The episemon of the town is a Ram's head. B. V. Head, Historia Numorum, p. 470.
  2. In the Greek alphabet, one of three obsolete letters used only as numerals. They are #2, a form of the digamma, #567, βαυ%148, vau (a similar character being used, later, as a ligature for ςτ, στ, and called stigma); #3, κόππα, koppa; and #5, σάν, san, later called σάμπι or σαμπι%148, sampi. As numerals they were written with a mark over them: thus, #2/ = 6, #3/ = 90, #5/ = 900. See vau, koppa, san, sampi.

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  1. from Greek ἐπίσημον (cf. equivalent ἐπίσημα), any distinguishing mark, a device, as on a coin or shield, a badge, crest, ensign, neuter of ἐπίσημος, having a mark or device on, marked, from ἐπί, on, + ση̄μα, a sign, mark.
 

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