σπεῖραι (speirai)

σπεῖραι is an Ancient Greek form of σπείρω, meaning “sow”. It is the 2nd person singular aorist middle imperative.

It can also be a form of σπεῖρα, “anything twisted; wound”.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.2.62: … τοῦτον ἐπισκήψας τοῖς ἰδίοις τὸν τρόπον, ἀποκομίσαι αὐτοῦ τὰ ὀστᾶ εἰς Σαλαμῖνα καὶ τεφρώσαντας εἰς τὴν χώραν σπεῖραι. ὅθεν καὶ Κρατῖνος ἐν τοῖς Χείρωσί φησιν, αὐτὸν ποιῶν λέγοντα· οἰκῶ δὲ νῆσον, ὡς μὲν ἀνθρώπων λόγος, ἐσπαρμέν …

Euripides, Medea 718: σπεῖραί σε θήσω· τοιάδ’ οἶδα φάρμακα.

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.