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|mdlsjtxt=<br />to sow:<br /><b class="num">I.</b> to sow [[seed]], Hes., [[Attic]]<br /><b class="num">2.</b> to sow children, to [[engender]], [[beget]] them, Soph.:—Pass. to be [[born]], Soph., Eur.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> to [[scatter]] like [[seed]], [[strew]], [[throw]] [[about]], χρυσὸν καὶ ἄργυρον Hdt.; δρόσον Eur.:—to [[spread]] [[abroad]], as Virgil spargere voces, Soph.:—Pass. to be [[scattered]], [[dispersed]], Eur., Thuc.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> to sow a [[field]], Hes., Hdt., etc.: Pass., ἡ σπειρομένη [[Αἴγυπτος]] the [[arable]] [[part]] of [[Egypt]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[proverb]]., πόντον σπείρειν, of [[lost]] [[labour]], Theogn.