σπάνιος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=α, ον (also ος, ον [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Historia Animalium|HA]]''608b21, [[Theophrastus]] ''De Lapidibus'' 3, Plb.4.16.3, etc.), of persons and things,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[rare]], [[scarce]], [[scanty]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]2.67, 5.29, etc.; <b class="b3">σ. θήρευμα.. λαβεῖν</b> a [[rare]] [[catch]], E.''IA''1162; of persons, [[rarely seen]], [[aloof]], <b class="b3">δυσπρόσιτος, ἔσω τε κλῄθρων σπάνιος</b> ib.345 (troch.); σ. σεαυτὸν παρέχειν [[Plato|Pl.]]'' [[Euthyphro|Euthyphr.]] ''3d, cf. Plu.''Crass.''7; <b class="b3">τῷ ὕδατι σ. χρώμενοι</b> having a [[scanty]] [[supply]] of [[water]], Th.7.4; in an Adv. sense, <b class="b3">σπάνιος ἐπιφοιτᾷ</b> he [[seldom]] [[visit]]s, [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]2.73; so <b class="b3">τοὺς σπανίους ἰδεῖν στρατηγούς</b> [[seldom]] [[see]]n, [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''7.5.46, cf. Pl.''Lg.''953c; σπάνιοι περιπεπλεύκασι Str.15.1.4; <b class="b3">σπάνιόν ἐστι</b>, c. inf., [[it is seldom]] that... [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''1.3.3, Isoc.10.13; opp. [[ῥᾴδιον]], Archyt.3; <b class="b3">σπάνιον εἴ τις..</b>[[it is rare]] for one to... Str.7.3.4: <b class="b3">τὸ σπάνιον</b> Aeschin.3.180, [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Meteorologica|Mete.]]''372a23; ὁ ταὧς διὰ τὸ σπάνιον θαυμάζεται Eub.114.<br><span class="bld">II</span> Comp. σπανιώτερος [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]8.25, Th. 1.33, etc.: Sup. σπανιώτατος Id.7.68, ''Lyr.Adesp.''138.1, [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Cratylus|Cra.]]''389a, etc.<br><span class="bld">III</span> Adv. [[σπανίως]] = [[seldom]], X.''Ages.''9.1, [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Historia Animalium|HA]]''488b6, Plb.2.15.6 (so σπάνιον Str.3.5.1, Plu.''Cic.''8, etc., but [[σπανίᾳ]] is Adj. in Pl. ''Phdr.''256c, and [[σπάνιον]] in [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Meteorologica|Mete.]]''372a14): Comp. σπανιώτερον Th.1.23; σπανιαίτερον [[Theophrastus|Thphr.]] ''[[Historia Plantarum|HP]]'' 3.7.5 codd.—Rare in Poets, as Ion Eleg. 3.4.