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ὑποσπᾰνίζομαι

upospanizomai

to be scant

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Where it lives

Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k

What it meant

ὑποσπᾰνίζομαι · hypospanizomai — LSJ

to be scant, stinted of

to be scant or stinted of, ὑπεσπανισμένοι βορᾶς A. Pers. 489, cf. Ch. 577.

2 to be lacking, to be left undone

of things, to be lacking, to be left undone, τί δʼ ἐστὶ χρείας τῆσδʼ ὑπεσπανισμένον (cf. χρεία II.4) S. Aj. 740.

Act. in signf. I.1, Procop. Goth. 2.20, 3.25; in signf. I.2, Ph. 2.64, 73.

In the wild

ὑπεσπανισμένη · hypespanismenē Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 577–578
ὑπεσπανισμένους · hypespanismenous Aeschylus, Persians 488–489
ὑπεσπανισμένον · hypespanismenon Sophocles, Ajax 740

Where it came from

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