σπερμο-λόγος, ον,
(λέγω) picking up seeds, of birds, [[ [prev. author] “Demetr.” 28, Alex.Mynd. cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 9.388a ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: as substantive, rook, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 592b28 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; glossed κολοιῶδες ζῷον, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus; σπερμολόγων τε γένη 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 232 (Lyric poetry), compare 579. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 τὰ σπερμολόγα τῶν παιδαρίων guttersnipes, [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 3.85f. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II picking up scraps, gossiping, ἄνθρωπος [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 19.5 (_superlative_, [prev. work] 4)] Refs 1st c.BC+]; also πικρὰ καὶ σ. ῥήματα [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.456c. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__III as substantive, one who picks up and retails scraps of knowledge, an idle babbler, gossip, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.127, NT.Act.17.18, 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 8.344c. ] NT+4th c.BC+]