Κατασκεδάζειν
to sprinkle
Translated by David Whitehead17 Jul 2001Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Used] with a genitive. It was a Thracian custom in their symposia, where, when the drinkers have drunk as much wine as they can, they pour the remainder of the wine down the cloaks of the drinkers; this they used to call "sprinkling" [it]. So [says] Xenophon in [book] 7 of the Anabasis of Cyrus.1 It is also mentioned by the great Plato in the Laws.2 Xenophon says: "he stood up and, as soon as3 he had finished drinking with him, joined him in sprinkling the dregs".