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σπαρτός

spartos

sown, grown from seed, cultivated

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1. σπαρτός · spartos — LSJ

sown, grown from seed, cultivated

sown, grown from seed, cultivated, Thphr. HP 6.8.2, Dsc. 3.37, etc.

2 of men

of men, οἱ . . σπαρτοί τε καὶ αὐτόχθονες Pl. Sph. 247c; σπαρτῶν γένος children of men, A. Eu. 410.

b the Sown-men, sown, Theban

esp. at Thebes, Σπαρτοί, οἱ, the Sown-men, those who sprang from the dragonʼs teeth sown by Cadmus, and their descendants, Pi. I. 1.30, 7(6).10; Σπαρτῶν στάχυς E. HF 5; Ἐχίων σπαρτός IG 14.1285 ii 9, 1292 i 3, cf. E. Ba. 1274; λόγχη σπαρτός the Theban spear, Id. Supp. 578.

II scattered

scattered, of the limbs of a corpse, AP 7.383 (Phil.).

2. σπάρτος · spartos — LSJ

= σπαρτίον III, Pl. Plt. 280c, X. Cyn. 9.13, Ps.-Dsc. 4.154.

2

= σπάρτον IV, Str. 3.4.9.

II

σπάρτος, ἡ, = σπάρτη I.1, Hero Spir. 1.17, al.

2

= σπάρτη II, Hsch. s.v. στάθμη, Sch. Pl. Chrm. 154b; masc. in Sch.Il.Oxy. 1086.23; τὸν λίθον ποτὶ τὰν σ. ἄγοντας Dor. prov. ap. Basil. in Migne Patrol.Graec. 31.569.

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