sow
Ἐρωτώμενος διὰ τί ὀλίγους ἔχει μαθητάς, ἔφη ὅτι ἀργυρέᾳ αὐτοὺς ἐκβάλλω ῥάβδῳ → When asked why he had so few pupils, he replied ‘I chase them away with a silver stick (Diogenes Laertius 6.4.5, on the philosopher Antisthenes)
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
P. and V. ὗς, ἡ (Aesch., Fragment).
verb transitive
sow seed: P. and V. σπείρειν, κατασπείρειν (Plato), P. καταβάλλειν.
nor ought one to sow the seeds of such mischiefs in the city even though there be not yet any likelihood of a crop: P. ἀλλ' οὐδὲ σπέρμα δεῖ καταβάλλειν ἐν τῇ πόλει οὐδένα τοιούτων πραγμάτων, οὐδ' εἰ μή πω ἂν ἐκφύοι (Dem. 748).
what a harvest of sorrow did you sow for me ere you perished: V. ὅσας ἀνίας μοι κατασπείρας φθίνεις (Sophocles, Ajax 1005).
sow the fields: P. and V. σπείρειν.
Met., propagate P. and V. σπείρειν; (Plato), V. κατασπείρειν; see beget.
disseminate: P. and V. διασπείρειν, διαδιδόναι, ἐκφέρω, ἐκφέρειν, Ar. and V. σπείρειν.
