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σκεδάννυ_μι , Thphr.CP3.6.4, etc.:—also σκεδάω , Nic.Al.583: fut. σκεδάσω [α^] Thgn.883 (ἀπο-), J.BJ4.9.6, Plu.Cor.12, etc.; Att.
A.“σκεδῶ” A.Pr.25, 925, (ἀπο-) S.OT138, (δια-) Ar.V.229, Av.1053 (also in Hdt.8.68.β́), (συσκ-) Ar.Ra.903: aor. ἐσκέδασα, Ep. σκέδασα, the only tense used by Hom. (v. infr.):—Med., aor. ἐσκεδασάμην （συγκατ-) X.An.7.3.32, (ἀπ-) Pl.Ax.365e:—Pass., fut. “σκεδασθήσομαι” M.Ant.6.4, Gal.6.6: aor. ἐσκεδάσθην, pf. ἐσκέδασμαι (v. infr.):— scatter, disperse, ἀπὸ πυρκαϊῆς σκέδασον [λαόν] Il.23.158, cf. 19.171; “λαὸν σκέδασεν κατὰ νῆας” 23.162; also of things, “σκέδασον δ᾽ ἀπὸ κήδεα θυμοῦ” Od.8.149; “ἠέρα μὲν σκέδασεν” Il.17.649, cf. Od.13.352; τῶν νῦν αἷμα . . ἐσκέδασ᾽ ὀξὺς Ἄρης shed the blood all round, Il.7.330; “πάχνην . . ἥλιος σκεδᾷ πάλιν” A.Pr.25; “ὄσα φαίνολις ἐσκέδασ᾽ αὔως” Sapph.95; τρίαιναν . . σκεδᾷ will shiver it, A.Pr.925; μὴ σκεδάσαι τῷδ᾽ ἀπὸ κρατὸς βλεφάρων θ᾽ ὕπνον (sleep being conceived of as a cloud over the eyes) S. Tr.989 (anap.); scatter abroad, of Pandora opening the fatal casket, Hes.Op.95.
II. Pass., to be scattered, disperse, “σκεδασθῆναι ἀνὰ τὰς πόλιας” Hdt.5.102; of a routed army, Th.4.56,112, 6.52; ς. καθ᾽ ἁρπαγήν, of plundering parties, X.An.3.5.2; “ἐπὶ τὰ ἐπιτήδεια” Id.Eq. Mag.7.9; of the rays of the sun, πρὶν σκεδασθῆναι θεοῦ ἀκτῖνας to be shed abroad, A.Pers.502; of a rumour, to be spread abroad, “ἐσκεδασμένου τοῦ λόγου ἀνὰ τὴν πόλιν” Hdt.4.14; also ὄψις ἐσκεδασμένη vision not confined to one object, X.Cyn.5.26.
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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