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Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Sigma
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Sigma

A couch made in a semicircular form for use at a round dining-table (orbis). Its name was given it from the old form of the Greek letter sigma, which was C (Mart.ix. 60).

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    • Martial, Epigrammata, 9.60
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