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πανσπερμία , ἡ,
A.mixture of all seeds (cf. πανοσπρία), Arist.GA769a29,b2, Sosib. 20, Luc.Herm.61, Alciphr.3.14, Gp.15.8.2: metaph., “π. μύθων” Plu.2.348a.
II. of the mixture of elements, in the systems of Anaxagoras and the atomists, “ὡς οὖσαν τὴν φύσιν οἷον π. πάντων τῶν στοιχείων” Arist.Cael.303a16, cf. GC314a29, Ph.203a21; “π. παντὶ θνητῷ γένει μηχανώμενος” Pl.Ti.73c; “παθῶν π. τις ὁ θυμός” Plu.2.463a.
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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