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διασπάω

διασπάω, to tear asunder, part forcibly

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διασπῶντα present active participle neuter nominative plural, present active participle neuter vocative plural, present active participle neuter accusative plural, present active participle masculine accusative singular of διασπάω

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δια-σπάω, fut. -σπάσομαι [ᾰ] Ar. Ra. 477, Ec. 1076, also -σπάσω Hdt. 7.236: aor. -έσπᾰσα, Med. -εσπασάμην E. Hec. 1126, Ba. 339, Plu. Caes. 68: pf. -έσπᾰκα Sch. Th. Oxy. 853i15:—Pass., aor. -εσπάσθην: pf. -έσπασμαι (v. infr.):—
  • tear asunder, τοὺς ἄνδρας κρεοργηδὸν δ. Hdt. 3.13, cf. E. and Ar. ll. cc., etc.; ἐμὲ καὶ τὸν ἄνδρα δ. X. Cyr. 6.1.45; δ. τὸ σταύρωμα to break through or tear down the palisade, Id. HG 4.4.10; δ. τὴν γέφυραν, τὸ ἔδαφος, Plb. 6.55.1, Plu. Cam. 5; break up, SIG 364.10 (Ephesus, iii B. C.): metaph., διασπᾶν τὴν σύμπνοιαν τοῦ παντός Iamb. Protr. 21.λʹ:—Pass., διέσπασται μελέων φύσις Emp. 63; τὸ Ἀττικὸν [ἔθνος] . . διεσπασμένον ὑπὸ Πεισιστράτου Hdt. 1.59; μόνον οὐ διεσπάσθην D. 5.5; δ. ἀπὸ τῶν φίλων to be torn away from . ., Arist. Rh. 1386a10.
      • 2 in military sense, separate part of an army from the rest, X. Cyr. 5.4.19; of army and fleet, Hdt. 7.236; δ. τὰς φάλαγγας break them up, Arist. Pol. 1303b13: —Pass., στράτευμα διεσπασμένον an army scattered and in disorder, Th. 6.98, cf. 7.44; of a fleet, Id. 8.104; τῷ διεσπάσθαι τὰς δυνάμεις to be widely scattered, X. An. 1.5.9.
      • 3 metaph., pull different ways, πόλεις distract states, Pl. Lg. 875a; τὰς πολιτείας D. 4.48; τοὺς νόμους X. Cyr. 8.5.25; διέσπακε τὴν ἱστορίαν has broken the continuity of the narrative, Sch. Th. l.c.:—Pass., διασπώμενος distracted, πρὸς τοσαύτας ὑπηρεσίας Luc. DDeor. 4[24].1; ὑπὸ τῶν λόγων Id. Icar. 23.

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