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σπάραγ-μα , ατος, τό,
A.piece torn off, shred, fragment, ὅσων σπαράγματα all whose mangled corpses, S.Ant.1081; “σπάραγμα κόμας” E. Andr.826 (lyr.); γίνεται τὰ μὲν ἀπὸ σπέρματος τὰ δ᾽ ἀπὸ σπαραγμάτων others from slips, Arist.GA761b28: pl., ς. κρημνῶν jagged fragments, Plu.Mar.23; ς. στεφάνων fragments of . ., Id.2.463a, etc.; γραμμάτων σπαράγμασι . . οἱ σπεύδοντες γράφουσι ib.1011d.
II. tearing, rending, “δαμάλας διεφόρουν σπαράγμασιν” E.Ba.739.
III. collect. in sg.,= λατύπη, SIG996.31 (Smyrna, prob. i A.D.).
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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