σιγῆς (siges)

σιγῆς is an Ancient Greek form of σιγή, meaning “silence”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.5.86: … ται ὑμᾶς ἐνθάδε πλέοντας. ἐρωτηθεὶς ὑπὸ ἀσεβοῦς ἀνθρώπου τί ποτέ ἐστιν εὐσέβεια, ἐσίγα. τοῦ δὲ τὴν αἰτίαν τῆς σιγῆς πυθομένου, σιωπῶ, ἔφη, ὅτι περὶ τῶν οὐδέν σοι προσηκόντων πυνθάνῃ.

Aristophanes, Acharnians 778: οὐ χρῆσθα; σιγῇς ὦ κάκιστʼ ἀπολουμένα;

Flavius Josephus, Life of Josephus 141: Σιγῆς οὖν παρὰ πάντων γενομένης, ἄνδρες, εἶπον, ὁμόφυλοι, θανεῖν μέν, εἰ δίκαιόν ἐστιν, οὐ παραιτοῦμαι. βούλομαι δʼ ὅμως πρὸ τοῦ τελευτῆσαι τὴν ἀλήθειαν φράσαι πρὸς ὑμᾶς·

All forms of σιγή (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.