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