σποράς: Difference between revisions

|Definition=σποράδος, ὁ, ἡ, mostly pl., [[scattered]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]4.113; of ship [[scattered]] by a storm or a defeat, Th.1.49, 3.69,77; <b class="b3">βουκολικαὶ Μοῖσαι σ. ποκά</b>, i.e. [[not collected]] into a volume, ''AP''9.205 (Artemid.); <b class="b3">νησιώτης σ. βίος</b> a [[vagrant]] life, E.''Rh.'' 701 (lyr.); so of men, <b class="b3">σποράδες.. τὸ ἀρχαῖον ᾤκουν</b>, i.e. not in communities, Arist.''Pol.''1252b23; of birds, opp. [[ἀγελαῖος]] (cf. [[σποραδικός]]), Id.''HA''617b21; σ. ἀστέρες Id.''Mete.''344a15, cf. 346a20; <b class="b3">λόγοι σ.</b> [[unconnected]], Plu.2.431d; <b class="b3">σ. νᾶσοι</b> [[scattered]], [[not in a group]], Pi.''Pae.''5.38, cf. D.S.3.44; hence <b class="b3">αἱ Σποράδες</b> the islands off the west coast of Asia Minor, opp. <b class="b3">αἱ Κυκλάδες</b>, A.R.4.1711, Str.2.5.21; of diseases, [[sporadic]], opp. [[endemic]], Hp.''Acut.''5 (Littrá [[σποράδεες]], with cod. M).