διασπείρω

diaspeiro

scatter

Appears 8 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Parts of Animals 3
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Book III 2
Chapter 4 665a27–667b9

665b29

Chapter 9 671a26–672b9

671a30
Book IV 1
Chapter 5 678a27–682a34

680a14
Meteorology 2
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Book I 1
Chapter 4 341b1–342a33

341b33
Book II 1
Chapter 9 369a10–370a33

369a25
Politics 2
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Book III 1
Chapter 11 1281a39–1282b13

1281b13
Book VI 1
Chapter 4 1318b6–1319b29

1319a31
De Mundo 1
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Chapter 4 394a7–396a32

394a30

Dictionary (LSJ)

διασπείρω, aor. 2 Pass. -εσπάρην [ᾰ] S. El. 748, etc.:—A. 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 dissipated, Epicur. Ep. 1p.21U.; τὸ διεσπαρμένον δόγμα the current opinion, Id. Nat. 14.7; τῶν χρωμάτων διεσπαρμένων Ael. NA 11.21.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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