The corpus record

σπάραγ-μα

sparagma · τό

piece torn off, shred, fragment

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Where it lives

Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k

What it meant

σπάραγ-μα · sparag-ma — LSJ

piece torn off, shred, fragment, mangled corpses, slips, fragments, fragments

piece torn off, shred, fragment, ὅσων σπαράγματα all whose mangled corpses, S. Ant. 1081; σπάραγμα κόμας E. Andr. 826 (lyr.); γίνεται τὰ μὲν ἀπὸ σπέρματος τὰ δʼ ἀπὸ σπαραγμάτων others from slips, Arist. GA 761b28: pl., σ. κρημνῶν jagged fragments, Plu. Mar. 23; σ. στεφάνων fragments of . ., Id. Cohib. 2.463a, etc.; γραμμάτων σπαράγμασι . . οἱ σπεύδοντες γράφουσι ib. An.procr. 1011d.

II tearing, rending

tearing, rending, δαμάλας διεφόρουν σπαράγμασιν E. Ba. 739.

III

collect. in sg., = λατύπη, SIG 996.31 (Smyrna, prob. i A.D.).

In the wild

σπαράγμασιν · sparagmasin Euripides, Bacchae 737–739
σπαράγματʼ · sparagmatʼ Sophocles, Antigone 1080–1083

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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