σπείρων (speiron)

σπείρων is an Ancient Greek form of σπείρω, meaning “sow”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

It can also be a form of σπεῖρον, “cloth, wrapping”.

Found 46 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Sulla 21.2: … ὐτοκράτορα, μεμνημένοι φράζειν ὡς ἐν Ὀρχομενῷ. τούτους τε δὴ τὸ ῥηθὲν ἐπέστρεψε, καὶ τῶν ἐπὶ τοῦ δεξιοῦ κέρως σπειρῶν δύο προσεβοήθησαν, ἃς ἐπαγαγὼν τρέπεται τοὺς πολεμίους.

Plutarch, Demetrius 20.2: … άνας, οὐ μόνον ὑοσκύαμον καὶ ἐλλέβορον, ἀλλὰ καὶ κώνειον καὶ ἀκόνιτον καὶ δορύκνιον, αὐτὸς ἐν τοῖς βασιλείοις σπείρων καὶ φυτεύων, ὀπούς τε καὶ καρπὸν αὐτῶν ἔργον πεποιημένος εἰδέναι καὶ κομίζεσθαι καθʼ ὥραν. οἱ δὲ Πάρθων βασιλ …

All forms of σπείρω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.