SCATTER Copy link • SCATTERTransitively, spargere (the proper word): jacere (to throw out): severe (to sow; all PROP. and figuratively): disseminare (figuratively, to scatter abroad): dispergere, dissipare (to scatter abroad, PROP. and figuratively): differre (figuratively, to carry about, spread abroad; all these; e.g., of conversation, reports): To scatter the enemy, hostes fugare, dispellere (Cic.); dissipare (Caes.): to scatter the seeds of discord, serere causam discordiarum; semina discordiarum or odiorum jacere (spargere); also simply discordias serere: among citzens, civiles discordias serere; civium dissensiones ccmmovere or accendere: scattered reports, disseminati dispersique sermones; sparsi rumores (disseminationes in late writers). Intransitively, spargi; distrahi; in diversa discedere.