DEIGMA
DEIGMA (
δεῖγμα), a particular
place in the Peiraeus, as well as in the harbours of other states, where
merchants exposed samples of their goods for sale. (Harpocrat.,
Hesych. sub voce Pollux, 9.34;
Aristoph. Kn. 979; Dem.
c.
Lacr. p. 932.29;
c. Polycl. p. 1214.24; Theophr.
Char. 23.) The samples themselves were also called
deigmata. (
Plut. Dem.
23; Boeckh,
P. E. p. 58.)
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