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σπάν-ις [α^], ἡ, gen. εως, dat. ει, Ion. ι:—
A.scarcity, dearth, lack, “τόλμης” E.Or.942; “ἀνδρῶν” D.25.31; “ὕδατος” Arist.GA746b10, cf. LXX Ju.8.9; “θηρίων” Str.2.5.26; “νεκύων” AP9.53 (Nicod. or Bass.); οὐ σπάνις . . ἔχειν,= οὐ σπάνιον, there is no lack, no difficulty, in getting, E.IA1163; οὗ ς. ἀνδρὶ τυχεῖν which 'tis rare for a man to get, IG2.2753, cf. 3577: abs., dearth, τροφὰς ἐν τῇ μεγάλῃ ς. παρέσχε ib.3.687.
II. unsatisfied need, want, c. gen., “ἐν σπάνι βύβλων” Hdt.5.58; ς. σχεῖν τοῦ βίου poverty, S.OT1461; “βίου” E.Hec.12; “ἢν δέ του σπάνιν τιν᾽ ἴσχῃς” S.OC506, cf. Pl.Lg.678d; “ς. τῶν ἀναγκαίων” Antipho 4.1.2; τῇ τῶν χρημάτων ς. Th.1.142; “ἀργυρίου” Lys.19.11; ἡ . . ς. πρόχειρος εἰς τὸ δρᾶν κακά want, poverty, Philem.157.
2. craving, defined as ἐπιθυμία ἀτελής, Stoic.3.97; “ἐν ς. χρημάτων” D.19.153, cf. Phld.Lib.p.45 O.
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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