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κατασπείρω , fut. -
A.“σπερῶ” LXX (v. infr.):—sow, plant, “εἰς μήτραν ζῷα” Pl.Ti.91d: metaph., “ἀνίας μοι κατασπείρας” S.Aj.1005:—Pass., “ὁ κατεσπαρμένος σπόρος” PMagd.7.8 (iii B.C.).
2. beget, τινα E.HF 469, Phint. ap. Stob.4.23.61a; τὸν κατασπείραντα him that begat me, Diph.93.
II. spread as in sowing, τοῦ χάρακος κ. [πυροβόλα] scatter them over . . , Plu.Cam.34; “αὐτοῖς αὔραν τινὰ κ. ἡ χώρα νότιον” Id.Dio 25:—Pass., to be spread abroad, dispersed, “εἰ μὴ κατεσπαρμένοι ἦσαν οἱ τοιοῦτοι λόγοι ἐν τοῖς πᾶσιν” Pl.Lg.891b.
III. plant, “ἀμπελῶνα” LXX De.22.9; “γῆν” PMagd.28.3 (iii B.C.), Ph.2.262: metaph., [“νόσοι] χωρία καὶ πελάγη κατασπείρασαι τῶν ἀβουλήτων” Id.2.567; “πλούτῳ Ἑλλάδα κ.” D.H.Dem.29.
IV. besprinkle, “ἤδη καὶ λευκαί με κατασπείρουσιν ἔθειραι” AP11.41 (Phld.).
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Euripides, Heracles, 469
    • Plato, Laws, 891b
    • Plato, Timaeus, 91d
    • Sophocles, Ajax, 1005
    • Old Testament, Deuteronomy, 22.9
    • Plutarch, Dion, 25
    • Plutarch, Camillus, 34
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, 29
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