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Headword: *spora/
Adler number: sigma,959
Translated headword: scattering, sowing
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] distribution.
Greek Original:
*spora/: h( dianomh/.
Notes:
Adler identifies this entry as coming from the source of the Lexicon Ambrosianum without citing a specific parallel.
Perhaps from commentary to Plato, who uses the headword twice in Laws: 729C and 783A (both accusative singular, and concerning procreative 'seed'); cf. the similar glossing in Proclus, Commentary on Plato's Timaeus 3.233, 3.276, 3.290; Commentary on Plato's Republic 2.162.
Keywords: definition; gender and sexuality; medicine; philosophy
Translated by: William Hutton on 19 March 2014@12:04:15.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 20 March 2014@01:46:28.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaking; raised status) on 20 March 2014@04:24:42.
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