[Meaning] blossoming, [or/that which is] bursting from pressure and in need of some kind of excretion.[1]
"[... them] wishing for a long time and swelling [sc. with desire] to assist the household members."[2]
And elsewhere: "[...] since they were swelling [sc. with emotion] against the enemy."[3]
*spargw=sa: a)nqou=sa, h( sparattome/nh u(po\ qli/yews kai\ deome/nh e)kkri/sew/s tinos. pa/lai boulome/nous kai\ spargw=ntas bohqei=n toi=s oi)kei/ois. kai\ au)=qis: oi(=a pa/lai spargw=ntes e)pi\ tou\s polemi/ous.
On
sparga/w and its range of literal and figurative applications, see generally LSJ s.v.
[1] =
Photius sigma439 Theodoridis, where one finds
h)\ ('or') in place of the Suda's
h( ('the feminine entity [which]'); the remainder of the sentence =
Timaeus,
Platonic Lexicon 1002b8, probably commenting on
Plato,
Laws 692A, where the headword participle (here nominative singular feminine) appears in the accusative singular feminine, modifying the noun
a)rxh/n ('beginning', 'principle'). The first gloss also =
Synagoge sigma169. See also
scholia to
Plato,
Symposium 206D, where the same participle appears in the dative singular neuter, and to
Republic 460C, where it appears in the nominative singular masculine. Theodoridis points out instances of
spargw=sa itself in
Dionysius of Halicarnassus,
Roman Antiquities 1.79.6 (= [DW] Fabius Pictor fr.1), and
Plutarch,
Moralia 320D, both on a she-wolf whose teats are swelling with milk.
[2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's opinion, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable; it exhibits the accusative plural masculine form of the headword.
[3] Quotation (again, Adler supposes, via the
Excerpta) again unidentifiable; it exhibits the nominative plural masculine form of the headword.
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