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διασπείρω

diaspeiro

scatter, spread about, dispersed

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 45 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

διασπείρω · diaspeirō — LSJ

scatter, spread about, dispersed, squander, to be scattered, distributed, is dissipated, current

scatter or spread about, [τὰς μνέας] . . αὐτοχειρίῃ διέσπειρε τῇ στρατιῇ Hdt. 3.13; διέσπειρε ἡμέας ἄλλην ἄλλῃ τάξας dispersed us, ib. 68; δ. λόγον X. HG 5.1.25; τοὔνομα εἰς τὴν Ἀσίαν Isoc. 5.104; squander, S. El. 1291:—Pass., to be scattered, κρατὸς διασπαρέντος αἵματός θʼ ὁμοῦ Id. Tr. 782; πῶλοι διεσπάρησαν ἐς μέσον δρόμον Id. El. 748; of troops, διεσπαρμένοι Th. 1.11, X. HG 5.3.1, etc.; φύσεις ὁμοίως διεσπαρμέναι equally distributed, Pl. R. 455d, cf. Sph. 260b, etc.; ἡ ψυχὴ διασπείρεται is di

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