Possible Clues:

• A great scattering, as of Jews from Egypt
• Great dispersion of Jews - and later Irish
• Scattering of a people
• A drop is mixed before a dispersion
• Migration is terribly sporadic one without the least bit of comfort
• A drop is spilt before a popular scattering?
• Arabic work reputed to back people's movement
• People moved out of area after military activities in attack approached from East
• Works in a surprise attack set up to get people dispersing
• Great scattering of people over the world, Jews or Irish