prosemino

prō-sēmĭno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to sow or scatter about, to sow (rare but class.).

I.

Lit.: ostreas, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 216, 13:

tamquam ex draconis alicujus dentibus proseminati,

Lact. 6, 10, 19.—

II.

Trop., to disseminate, propagate:

proseminatae sunt familiae, i. e. ortae,

Cic. de Or. 3, 16, 61; id. Imp. Pomp. 1, 90.