The corpus record

σπάσις

spasis · ἡ

drawing up, traction

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Where it lives

On the Sacred Disease 1 · 2.18/10k
On the Art of Horsemanship 1 · 1.44/10k

What it meant

σπάσις · spasis — LSJ

drawing up, traction

drawing up, traction, Arist. Pr. 882b27.

II drawing in, suction

drawing in, suction, ἡ τῆς τροφῆς σ. Id. PA 693a17; σπάσει πίνειν, opp. λάψει, κάψει, Id. HA 595a9; cf. σπάω III.1.

III

= ἀντίσπασις, cj. for στάσις in Sor. 2.11.

In the wild

σπάσῃ · spasēi Hippocrates, On the Sacred Disease 16 (DIORISIS sentence 213)
σπάσῃ · spasēi Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 194)

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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