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σωμα?́τ-ιον , τό, Dim. of σῶμα,
A.small body, poor body, Isoc.Ep.4.11, Epicur.Fr.181, Gnathaena ap.Ath.13.584b, etc.; ἀσθένεια τοῦ ς. PHerc.1041.1; of a sick man's body, PCair.Zen.254 (iii B.C.), Gal.13.1025, cf. Agathin. ap. Orib.10.7.4; of an animal, Arist.Fr.339; of an infant, Sor.1.117.
2. corpse, Plu.2.119b, Pap.inStud.Ital.12(1935).99 (ii A.D.), PLips.30.13 (iii A.D.), Hdn.2.1.1.
3. slave, PSI6.602.2 (iii B.C.), PCair.Zen.93.11 (iii B.C.), PUniv.Giss.20.14 (ii A.D.), etc.
II. of things,
1. small body, corpuscle, Arist.de An.409a11, HA525a2.
2. pl., padding, used by actors to improve their figure, Pl. Com.256, Luc.JTr.41, Poll.2.235,4.115.
3. book, volume, Heraclit.All.1, Porph.Plot.26; structure of a poem, Longin.9.13.
4. text, opp. signature, PGen.11.18,68.18 (iv A.D.).
5. instalment of a sum due, PEleph.14.21 (iii B.C.).-σωμα^τ-σωμάτειον is freq. v.l., cf. CIG2829.9, 2835.5 (Aphrodisias).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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