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σπόρι^μος , ον （α_, ον Hymn.Is. 162; η, ον, v. infr.1.3), (σπείρω)
A.sown, to be sown, fit for sowing, “αὖλαξ” Theoc.25.219; γῆ ς. seed-land, X. HG3.2.10, etc.; so ἡ ς (sc. γῆ) Thphr.HP6.5.4; “ς. ἄρουραι” PGiss.28.4 (ii A.D.), etc.; τὰ ς. the corn-fields, Ev.Matt.12.1, Gp.1.12.37; γένοιτο αὐτῷ τὰ ς. ἄσπορα Tab.Defix. in BCH51.149 (Salamis Cypr.); πεδίων σπορίμαν βάσιν, i.e. solid corn-fields, Hymn.Is. l.c.
2. ς. σπέρμα fit for sowing or bearing seed, LXX Ge.1.29.
3. μὴν ς. a month for sowing, Plu.2.378e: metaph., σπορίμη ἡμέρα day of conception, Vett.Val.50.31, Paul.Al.R.1; “σπόριμος γένεσις” Cat.Cod.Astr.8 (1).244.
4. μέτρον ς. a measure of seed-corn, AP6.95 (Antiphil.).
II. Act., αἰδὼς ς.,= τὸ αἰδοῖον, Man.3.396.
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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