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σπερμ-α^τικός , ή, όν,
A.of or for seed or generation, seminal, πόροι, ὄργανα, Arist.GA716b17, 717a12; περίττωμα ib.717a30; “ἀπόκρισις” Id.PA681b35; fruitful in seed, “ζῷον” Thphr.CP1.16.4; ς. γένεσις from seed, ib.1.2.1; τὸ -κόν the seed-vessel, Id.HP6.4.3.
b. capable of procreating, Arist.Pr.876b38, GA750a13; “δυνάμεις” Sor.1.41; πόρος, of the Fallopian tubes, Herophil. ap. Gal.4.597; τὸ ς. the procreative faculty, Zeno Stoic.1.39, cf. Stoic.2.258.
2. metaph., generative, esp. in Stoic Philosophy, ς. λόγοι generative principles, v. λόγος 111.7b: in Arith., ἡ δυὰς ς. Iamb.in Nic.p.31 P., al. Adv. “-κῶς” Theol.Ar.3,4.
II. general, summary, Ulp.ad D.9 init., Syrian. in Hermog.2.91 R. Adv. -κῶς, [εἴρηται] Gal.7.764.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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