διασπείρω

diaspeiro

scatter

Appears 11 times across Plato's dialogues.

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Laws 4
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Book III 2
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680d8
699d2
Book VII 1
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795e6
Book XII 1
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945c5
Timaeus 3
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54d1
75d4
85c4
Phaedrus 1
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265d4
Republic 1
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Book V 1
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455d8
Sophist 1
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260b8
Statesman 1
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269b7

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.

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