A.“ἐκέδασσα” Hom. (v. infr.), Opp.H.1.412, 3pl. “κέδασαν” Hsch., Pass. “ἐκεδάσθην” Hom. (v. infr.), “κεδάσθη” Orph.A.557; plpf. Pass. “κεκέδαστο” A.R.2.1112:—break up, scatter, “ἐκέδασσε φάλαγγας” Il.17.285; “θεὸς δ᾽ ἐκέδασσεν Ἀχαιούς” Od.14.242; so [“ποταμὸς] ἐκέδασσε γεφύρας” Il.5.88; “νεφέλας ἐκέδασσαν ἄελλαι” A.R.3.1360:—Pass., κεδασθείσης ὑσμίνης when the battle was broken up, i.e. when the combatants were no longer in masses, Il.15.328, 16.306; “ἔμειναν ἀθρόοι, οὐδ᾽ ἐκέδασθεν ἀνὰ στρατόν” 15.657; [δούρατα] ῥαισθείσης (sc. νηός）“ κεκέδαστο” A.R.2.1112; κῶμα κεδάσθη was shed, Orph. l.c.
κεδάννυ_μι , poet. for σκεδάννυμι, late in pres., AP5.275 (Agath.); Ep. aor. Act.
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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