σπάργανον

A. band for swathing infants, ib.151,306, Pi. N. 1.38: mostly in pl., swaddling-clothes, h.Merc. 237, Pi. P. 4.114; παῖς ἔτ’ ὢν ἐν σπαργάνοις A. Ch. 755, cf. 529,759, Ag. 1606; εἰς σπάργανά μ’ αὐτὸς ἔθηκεν Epigr.Gr. 314.6 (Smyrna, iii A.D.); ἐκ πρώτων ς. ab incunabulis, S.E. M. 1.41; τὰ τῆς γεννήσεως εὐτελῆ ς. a mean origin, Hdn. 7.1.2:—hence,

2. in Trag. and Com., objects left with an exposed child, the marks by which a person's true birth and family are identified (Lat. crepundia, monumenta), S. OT 1035, Men. Pk. 15, Donat. ad Ter.Eun. 753; so prob. τούτου (sc. τοῦ Τηλέφου)δὸς . . μοι τὰ ς. Ar. Ach. 431.

II. a plant,= ὠκιμοειδές, f.l. for σπαργάνιον, Ps.-Dsc. 4.28.