σποράς

A. scattered, Hdt. 4.113; of ship scattered by a storm or a defeat, Th. 1.49, 3.69,77; βουκολικαὶ Μοῖσαι ς. ποκά, i.e. not collected into a volume, AP 9.205 (Artemid.); νησιώτης ς. βίος a vagrant life, E. Rh. 701 (lyr.); so of men, σποράδες . . τὸ ἀρχαῖον ᾤκουν, i.e. not in communities, Arist. Pol. 1252b23; of birds, opp. ἀγελαῖος (cf. σποραδικός), Id. HA 617b21; ς. ἀστέρες Id. Mete. 344a15, cf. 346a20; λόγοι ς. unconnected, Plu. 2.431d; ς. νᾶσοι scattered, not in a group, Pi. Pae. 5.38, cf. D.S. 3.44; hence αἱ Σποράδες the islands off the west coast of Asia Minor, opp. αἱ Κυκλάδες, A.R. 4.1711, Str. 2.5.21; of diseases, sporadic, opp. endemic, Hp. Acut. 5 (Littrá σποράδεες, with cod. M).