II. mostly Pass. σκίδναμαι, only pres. and impf., to be spread or scattered, disperse, freq. of a crowd or assembly, “αὐτοὶ δ᾽ ἐσκίδναντο κατὰ κλισίας τε νέας τε” Il.1.487; “ἐπὶ σφέτερα σκίδνασθαι” Od.1.274; “ἐσκίδναντο ἑὴν ἐπὶ νῆα ἕκαστος” Il.19.277; “ἐπὶ νῆας ἕκαστοι ἐσκίδναντ᾽ ἰέναι” 24.2; “σκίδνασθ᾽ ἐπὶ ἔργα ἕκαστος” Od.2.252; ἐσκίδναντο ἑὰ πρὸς δώμαθ᾽ ἕκαστος ib.258; of foam or spray, “ὑψόσε δ᾽ ἄχνη σκίδναται” Il.11.308; of a cloud of dust, “ὕψι δ᾽ ἀέλλη σκίδναθ᾽ ὑπὸ νεφέων” 16.375; of a stream, “ἀνὰ κῆπον ἅπαντα σκίδναται” Od.7.130; also “ὀδμὴ σκίδνατο” h.Cer.278; “ὂψ σκιδναμένη” Hes.Th.42; “σκιδναμένα” Simon.41 codd.Plu. (f.l. for κιδν-); σκιδναμένης ἐν στήθεσιν ὀργῆς f.l. in Sapph.27; σκιδναμένης Δημήτερος, i.e. at seedtime, in spring, Orac. ap. Hdt.7.142; ἅμα ἡλίῳ σκιδναμένῳ as the sun began to spread his light, i.e. soon after sunrise, Id.8.23; in Hp. of an odour, to be dissipated, Loc.Hom.2; of the distribution of τὸ πνεῦμα through the system, Morb.Sacr.7; also of the pupils, to be dilated, “αἱ κόραι σκίδνανται” Id.Int.48 = Dieb.Judic.3; elsewh. rare in Prose, Thphr. Sens.55,56; “εὐωδία ἐκ πηγῆς -αμένη” Plu.2.941f (not found in good Att., except compd. ἀποσκίδναμαι in Th.6.98).
σκίδνημι , collat. form of σκεδάννυμι (q.v.),
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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