Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Apollonius” in chapter 114 of Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 6.:
...among these results the rest of the multitude (eskedannunto) scattered or dispersed in all directions alike.
In this sense skedasis is used by Xenophon in the Anabasis, by Plato in the Timaeus, by Apollonius of Rhodes, by Hesiod, and by Sophocles.
It is, therefore, a classic word, and is full of expression.
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