Strong G4685σπάω
to draw
- Transliteration
- spaō
- Pronunciation
- spah'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
A primary verb; to draw: - draw (out).
Detailed definition
σπάω
[in LXX chiefly for שָׁלַף,;]
in cl. poët. for ἕλκω; mostly used in mid. (cf. M, Pr., 157),
to draw: μάχαιραν, Mrk.14:47, Act.16:27,†
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for שָׁלַף,;]
in cl. poët. for ἕλκω; mostly used in mid. (cf. M, Pr., 157),
to draw: μάχαιραν, Mrk.14:47, Act.16:27,†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4685 appears in 2 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- draw2
First verses
- Mark 14:47And one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
- Acts 16:27And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
σπάω,
[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1003, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 498, etc.:)]future σπάσω [ᾰ] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 484, (δια-) 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.236, (ἐπι-) 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 769)]: aorist ἔσπᾰσα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.178 (tmesis))], Epic dialect σπάσα [Refs (5.859 (tmesis))], etc.: perfect ἔσπᾰκα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 930a21, (ἀν-) 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἐπικυήσιος” 22, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 1069)]:—middle, future σπάσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης” 2.38, etc.)]: aorist ἐσπᾰσάμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.387, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.29, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 7.42)], Epic dialect σπασάμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.166, _Epic dialect_ also σπάσσασθε, σπασσάμενος (see. below))]:—passive, future σπασθήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.760, (δια-) 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.8.10)]: aorist ἐσπάσθην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.458, etc.)]: perfect ἔσπασμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 1.20, (δι-) 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.98, etc.)]; also in middle sense, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.4.16, “Cyr.” 7.5.29. Mostly poetry (ἕλκω being preferred in Prose))]:—draw, hence,
I of a sword, draw, mostly in middle, φάσγανά τε σπάσσασθε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.74; σπασσάμενος.. ἄορ παχέος παρὰ μηροῦ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.473; ἐκ δ᾽ ἄρα σύριγγος.. ἐσπάσατ᾽ ἔγχος 19.387; σπασαμένων τὰς μαχαίρας “PTeb.” 48.19 (2nd c.BC), compare 138 (2nd c.BC))]: in active, ξίφος σπάσαντα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1194; φάσγανον σπάσας χερί [prev. author] “IT” 322:)] —passive, ἐσπασμένοι τὰ ξίφη having their swords drawn, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.4.16; ἐσπασμένον ὃν εἶχεν ἀκινάκην [prev. author] “Cyr.” 7.5.29; ἐσπασμένοις τοῖς ξίφεσι 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 4.52.)]
I.2 of other things, ἐκ χειρὸς χεῖρα σπάσατο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.321; σπασάμην ῥῶπάς τε λύγους τε 10.166)]; ὡς ἕκαστος ἔσπασεν τύχης πάλον drew the lot (out of the helmet), [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 333:)] —passive, σπασθέντος (i.e. ἔγχεος ἔξω χροός) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.458.)]
I.3 absolutely, σπᾶτ᾽ ἀνδρείως pull, hoist away, like men, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 498.)]
II of violent actions, pluck off or out, κόμην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1243; λάχνην [prev. author] “Tr.” 690)]; compare σπαστέος.
II.2 tear, rend, especially of ravenous animals, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 258, 1003)]; λαιμοτόμους κεφαλάς uncertain reading in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 776 (Lyric poetry))]; σ. τοῖς ὄνυξιν [τοὺς νεοττούς], of the eagle, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 619b31:)] —passive, φλέβιον, σάρκα σπασθῆναι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 1.17.)]
II.3 wrench, sprain, τὸ σκέλος ἔσπασε [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Aratus” 33)]:—passive, τὸν μηρὸν σπασθῆναι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.134; τοὺς πόδας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 639.)]
II.4 snatch, tear or drag away, πῶλον παρὰ συννόμων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 666e; ὑπὸ πτερῶν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 441)]:—passive, ἔλαφον ἀπ᾽ ἐμῶν γονάτων σπασθεῖσαν [Refs ([prev. author] “Hec.” 92 (Lyric poetry); ἐκ βραχίονος σπασθείς [prev. work] 408.)]
II.5 metaphorically, carry away, draw aside, ἀλλά σ᾽ ἔσπασεν πειθώ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 561; τὰ πάθη οἷον νεῦρα σ. ἡμᾶς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 644e.)]
II.6 in Medicine texts, cause convulsion or spasm, variant in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 67)]:—passive, to be convulsed, σπασθεὶς ἀποθνῄσκει [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Aph.” 5.5, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.4.13, etc.)]; ἐσπᾶτο γὰρ πέδονδε καὶ μετάρσιος, of Heracles in his agony, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 786, compare σπάσμα, σπασμός)]: metaphorically, to be harassed, anxious, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.1.16.)]
III draw in, suck in, θρόμβον αἵματος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 533; ἔσπασεν ἄμυστιν ἑλκύσας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 417)]; συνεκθανεῖν σπῶντα χρὴ τῷ πώματι[Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. work] 571; μεστὴν ἀκράτου Θηρίκλειον ἔσπασεν 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 5, compare 285)]; opposed to λάπτω, κάπτω, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.699d, compare σπάσις 11)]; σ. τὸν μαστόν suck it, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 587a33; σ. ἀμυστί 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 6.51)]; and in middle, ταυρείου σπασάμενος αἵματος [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus 1.9.27)]:—passive, of the female, to be sucked, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 576b11 (τὸ ἄγαν σπᾶσθαι probable reading);compare ἕλκω 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 11.4.)]
III.2 σ. τὸ πνεῦμα draw breath, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Resp.” 473a2; τὸν ἀέρα τὸν κοινόν 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 531.7)]; absorb, ἕκαστον τῶν τοῦ σώματος τὸ αὑτῷ οἰκεῖον ἐσπακέναι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 930a21.)]
III.3 metaphorically, derive, τροφήν, of winds, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης” 2.38; πειθώ τε καὶ εἵμερον ἔσπασε ἐκ..)]drew, derived.., [Refs (Inscriptiones Graecae 14.889 (from Sinuessa))]; σ. ἔρωτα enjoy it, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus “Halieutica - Poetae Bucolici et Didactici” 4.270)]; ὀλίγον ὕπνου σ. snatch a little sleep, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 5.1)]:—middle, [Refs ([prev. author] 2.16.)]
IV draw tight, pull the reins, χαλινῷ τὸ στόμα τοῦ ἵππου [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 9.7.1, compare 9.5; but τὸν χαλινὸν ἐκ τῶν ὀδόντων ἵππου 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 254e.)]
IV.2 of angling, ἡ μήρινθος οὐδὲν ἔσπασεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 928: hence proverbial, οὐκ ἔσπασεν ταύτῃ γε)] 'he took nothing by his motion', [Refs ([prev. author] “V.” 175.)]
V derive, ἐπωνυμίαν παρά τινων [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 2.10.6, compare 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 14.15 (_middle_))]; ἀρχὴν λυρικῆς καὶ πέρας σ. [Refs (“Anthologia Graeca” 9.184 (assuming variant))]; ῥίζαν σ. τινός derive one's origin from.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 623; σ. τὴν κλῆσιν ἀπό τινος 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 1.46; ἔννοιαν θεοῦ ἐκ τῶν κατὰ τοὺς ὕπνους φαντασιῶν 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 353.)]
[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1003, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 498, etc.:)]future σπάσω [ᾰ] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 484, (δια-) 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.236, (ἐπι-) 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 769)]: aorist ἔσπᾰσα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.178 (tmesis))], Epic dialect σπάσα [Refs (5.859 (tmesis))], etc.: perfect ἔσπᾰκα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 930a21, (ἀν-) 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἐπικυήσιος” 22, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 1069)]:—middle, future σπάσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης” 2.38, etc.)]: aorist ἐσπᾰσάμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.387, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.29, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 7.42)], Epic dialect σπασάμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.166, _Epic dialect_ also σπάσσασθε, σπασσάμενος (see. below))]:—passive, future σπασθήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.760, (δια-) 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.8.10)]: aorist ἐσπάσθην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.458, etc.)]: perfect ἔσπασμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 1.20, (δι-) 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.98, etc.)]; also in middle sense, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.4.16, “Cyr.” 7.5.29. Mostly poetry (ἕλκω being preferred in Prose))]:—draw, hence,
I of a sword, draw, mostly in middle, φάσγανά τε σπάσσασθε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.74; σπασσάμενος.. ἄορ παχέος παρὰ μηροῦ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.473; ἐκ δ᾽ ἄρα σύριγγος.. ἐσπάσατ᾽ ἔγχος 19.387; σπασαμένων τὰς μαχαίρας “PTeb.” 48.19 (2nd c.BC), compare 138 (2nd c.BC))]: in active, ξίφος σπάσαντα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1194; φάσγανον σπάσας χερί [prev. author] “IT” 322:)] —passive, ἐσπασμένοι τὰ ξίφη having their swords drawn, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.4.16; ἐσπασμένον ὃν εἶχεν ἀκινάκην [prev. author] “Cyr.” 7.5.29; ἐσπασμένοις τοῖς ξίφεσι 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 4.52.)]
I.2 of other things, ἐκ χειρὸς χεῖρα σπάσατο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.321; σπασάμην ῥῶπάς τε λύγους τε 10.166)]; ὡς ἕκαστος ἔσπασεν τύχης πάλον drew the lot (out of the helmet), [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 333:)] —passive, σπασθέντος (i.e. ἔγχεος ἔξω χροός) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.458.)]
I.3 absolutely, σπᾶτ᾽ ἀνδρείως pull, hoist away, like men, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 498.)]
II of violent actions, pluck off or out, κόμην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1243; λάχνην [prev. author] “Tr.” 690)]; compare σπαστέος.
II.2 tear, rend, especially of ravenous animals, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 258, 1003)]; λαιμοτόμους κεφαλάς uncertain reading in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 776 (Lyric poetry))]; σ. τοῖς ὄνυξιν [τοὺς νεοττούς], of the eagle, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 619b31:)] —passive, φλέβιον, σάρκα σπασθῆναι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 1.17.)]
II.3 wrench, sprain, τὸ σκέλος ἔσπασε [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Aratus” 33)]:—passive, τὸν μηρὸν σπασθῆναι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.134; τοὺς πόδας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 639.)]
II.4 snatch, tear or drag away, πῶλον παρὰ συννόμων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 666e; ὑπὸ πτερῶν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 441)]:—passive, ἔλαφον ἀπ᾽ ἐμῶν γονάτων σπασθεῖσαν [Refs ([prev. author] “Hec.” 92 (Lyric poetry); ἐκ βραχίονος σπασθείς [prev. work] 408.)]
II.5 metaphorically, carry away, draw aside, ἀλλά σ᾽ ἔσπασεν πειθώ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 561; τὰ πάθη οἷον νεῦρα σ. ἡμᾶς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 644e.)]
II.6 in Medicine texts, cause convulsion or spasm, variant in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 67)]:—passive, to be convulsed, σπασθεὶς ἀποθνῄσκει [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Aph.” 5.5, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.4.13, etc.)]; ἐσπᾶτο γὰρ πέδονδε καὶ μετάρσιος, of Heracles in his agony, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 786, compare σπάσμα, σπασμός)]: metaphorically, to be harassed, anxious, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.1.16.)]
III draw in, suck in, θρόμβον αἵματος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 533; ἔσπασεν ἄμυστιν ἑλκύσας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 417)]; συνεκθανεῖν σπῶντα χρὴ τῷ πώματι[Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. work] 571; μεστὴν ἀκράτου Θηρίκλειον ἔσπασεν 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 5, compare 285)]; opposed to λάπτω, κάπτω, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.699d, compare σπάσις 11)]; σ. τὸν μαστόν suck it, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 587a33; σ. ἀμυστί 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 6.51)]; and in middle, ταυρείου σπασάμενος αἵματος [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus 1.9.27)]:—passive, of the female, to be sucked, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 576b11 (τὸ ἄγαν σπᾶσθαι probable reading);compare ἕλκω 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 11.4.)]
III.2 σ. τὸ πνεῦμα draw breath, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Resp.” 473a2; τὸν ἀέρα τὸν κοινόν 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 531.7)]; absorb, ἕκαστον τῶν τοῦ σώματος τὸ αὑτῷ οἰκεῖον ἐσπακέναι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 930a21.)]
III.3 metaphorically, derive, τροφήν, of winds, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης” 2.38; πειθώ τε καὶ εἵμερον ἔσπασε ἐκ..)]drew, derived.., [Refs (Inscriptiones Graecae 14.889 (from Sinuessa))]; σ. ἔρωτα enjoy it, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus “Halieutica - Poetae Bucolici et Didactici” 4.270)]; ὀλίγον ὕπνου σ. snatch a little sleep, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 5.1)]:—middle, [Refs ([prev. author] 2.16.)]
IV draw tight, pull the reins, χαλινῷ τὸ στόμα τοῦ ἵππου [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 9.7.1, compare 9.5; but τὸν χαλινὸν ἐκ τῶν ὀδόντων ἵππου 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 254e.)]
IV.2 of angling, ἡ μήρινθος οὐδὲν ἔσπασεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 928: hence proverbial, οὐκ ἔσπασεν ταύτῃ γε)] 'he took nothing by his motion', [Refs ([prev. author] “V.” 175.)]
V derive, ἐπωνυμίαν παρά τινων [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 2.10.6, compare 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 14.15 (_middle_))]; ἀρχὴν λυρικῆς καὶ πέρας σ. [Refs (“Anthologia Graeca” 9.184 (assuming variant))]; ῥίζαν σ. τινός derive one's origin from.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 623; σ. τὴν κλῆσιν ἀπό τινος 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 1.46; ἔννοιαν θεοῦ ἐκ τῶν κατὰ τοὺς ὕπνους φαντασιῶν 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 353.)]