Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), S, Stheneboea, Stigma

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（στίγμα). Literally a mark made by puncturing (from στίζω). In general a brand or mark pricked or stamped upon an object, as on the forehead of a slave (Petron. 103). For theft the letter F (fur) was the usual brand, but sometimes the whole word was branded on, or even a sentence descriptive of the offence ( Petron. l. c.). The name was also given to a mark pricked into the arm of conscripts for the army (Veget. Mil. i. 8; ii. 5) after they had been received and passed, the object being identification. The same thing was done to labourers employed in the State's factories (Imp. Zeno, Cod. xlii. 10).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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