A.scatter or spread about, “[τὰς μνέας] . . αὐτοχειρίῃ διέσπειρε τῇ στρατιῇ” Hdt.3.13; διέσπειρε ἡμέας ἄλλην ἄλλῃ τάξας dispersed us, ib.68; “δ. λόγον” X.HG5.1.25; “τοὔνομα εἰς τὴν Ἀσίαν” Isoc.5.104; squander, S.El. 1291:—Pass., to be scattered, “κρατὸς διασπαρέντος αἵματός θ᾽ ὁμοῦ” Id.Tr.782; “πῶλοι διεσπάρησαν ἐς μέσον δρόμον” Id.El.748; of troops, “διεσπαρμένοι” Th.1.11, X.HG5.3.1, etc.; φύσεις ὁμοίως διεσπαρμέναι equally distributed, Pl.R.455d, cf. Sph.260b, etc.; “ἡ ψυχὴ διασπείρεται” is dissipated, Epicur.Ep.1p.21U.; τὸ διεσπαρμένον δόγμα the current opinion, Id.Nat.14.7; “τῶν χρωμάτων διεσπαρμένων” Ael.NA 11.21.
διασπείρω , aor. 2 Pass. -εσπάρην [α^] S.El.748, etc.:—
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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