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σπαρτός , ή, όν, also ός, όν E.Supp.578: (σπείρω):—
A.sown, grown from seed, cultivated, Thphr.HP6.8.2, Dsc.3.37, etc.
2. of men, “οἱ . . σπαρτοί τε καὶ αὐτόχθονες” Pl.Sph.247c; σπαρτῶν γένος children of men, A.Eu.410.
b. esp. at Thebes, Σπαρτοί, οἱ, the Sown-men, those who sprang from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus, and their descendants, Pi.I.1.30,7(6).10; “Σπαρτῶν στάχυς” E.HF5; “Ἐχίων σπαρτός” IG14.1285 ii 9, 1292 i 3, cf. E.Ba.1274; λόγχη σπαρτός the Theban spear, Id.Supp.578.
II. scattered, of the limbs of a corpse, AP7.383 (Phil.).
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 (5):
    • Aeschylus, Eumenides, 410
    • Euripides, Bacchae, 1274
    • Euripides, Heracles, 5
    • Euripides, Suppliants, 578
    • Plato, Sophist, 247c
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