σπείρω
"to sow":
I. "to sow" seed, Hes., attic
2. "to sow" children, "to engender, beget them", Soph.:—Pass. "to be born", id=Soph., Eur.
3. "to scatter like seed, strew, throw about", χρυσὸν καὶ ἄργυρον Hdt.; δρόσον Eur.:—"to spread abroad", as Virgil "spargere voces", Soph.:—Pass. "to be scattered, dispersed", Eur., Thuc.
II. "to sow" a field, Hes., Hdt., etc.: Pass., ἡ σπειρομένη Αἴγυπτος "the arable part of" Egypt, Hdt.
2. proverb., πόντον σπείρειν, "of lost labour", Theogn.