A.scattered, Hdt.4.113; of ship scattered by a storm or a defeat, Th.1.49, 3.69,77; βουκολικαὶ Μοῖσαι ς. ποκά, i.e. not collected into a volume, AP9.205 (Artemid.); νησιώτης ς. βίος a vagrant life, E.Rh. 701 (lyr.); so of men, σποράδες . . τὸ ἀρχαῖον ᾤκουν, i.e. not in communities, Arist.Pol.1252b23; of birds, opp. ἀγελαῖος (cf. σποραδικός), Id.HA617b21; “ς. ἀστέρες” Id.Mete.344a15, cf. 346a20; λόγοι ς. unconnected, Plu.2.431d; ς. νᾶσοι scattered, not in a group, Pi.Pae.5.38, cf. D.S.3.44; hence αἱ Σποράδες the islands off the west coast of Asia Minor, opp. αἱ Κυκλάδες, A.R.4.1711, Str.2.5.21; of diseases, sporadic, opp. endemic, Hp.Acut.5 (Littrá σποράδεες, with cod. M).
σπορ-άς , άδος, ὁ, ἡ, mostly pl.,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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