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34 entries for having made a libation

δ1447ΔωδώνηDodone, Dodona… = ps.-Nonnus, Scholia mythologica 5.17 (adding 'because of their not having organs of speech').Matched in noteshighmedium
ν356Νηφάλιος θυσίαsober sacrifice… Portus in his edition of 1630 read me/qhs mete/xousai "[not] having a share in drunkenness"; Gaisford conjectured me/qh| prose/xousai "[not] attending to drunkenness". [7] This comment on the Eumenides is lacking in mss AV; …Matched in noteshighmedium
α1842ἈναγυράσιοςAnagyrasian… father Amyntor after Phthia, Amyntor's concubine, falsely accused him of having seduced her. (He was later cured by Cheiron.)Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2161Κοτίνου στεφάνῳwith a wreath of wild olive… crowns, and the plural the fact that many crowns were made from its branches. Although the name designates the cultivated olive, Pausanias calls it a wild olive. His confounding of opposites in the Greek …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3510ΕὔθυμοςEuthymos, Euthumos, Euthymus… taken many crowns uncontested, that is, akoniti (dustless, from not having had to enter the contest: alpha 923). At any rate, Theagenes became a wealthy man. See further below, note 6. For pankratiast, see …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε1466Ἐντετριμμένηpainted, powdered, rubbed-in… verb; see LSJ s.v., IV. [2] The suggestion is that 'having upturned' (stre/yasa) is used punningly for 'having stolen' (kle/yasa).Matched in noteshighshort
λ247Λέντιονnapkin, hand-towelThe headword lention presumably reflects Latin linteum (literally, made of linen). See e.g. John 13:4-5.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1135ΚαυλῶI form a shoot, I form a stalk… e)kkekaulhko\s, o)/rmenon w)no/mazon "and anything over-blooming --- which they call 'having put out a shoot', they used to call o)/rmenon".Matched in noteshighshort
ε764Ἐλαίαolive… -- already at epsilon 729 and epsilon 743 -- is made by grammarians, but in fact the difference is one of dialect, e)la/a being the Attic form (see LSJ s.v.).Matched in noteshighshort
α2886Ἁπαλώτερος τρύχνουmore tender than trychnon… for a bewildering range of different plants and fruits.) Despite having every appearance of being a proverb, no such phrase occurs in the paroemiographers.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3569Εὔλογον ἀξίωμαprobable assumption, reasonable proposition… Plutarch in that passage asserts that Sphaerus visited Sparta and made an intellectual impact on its young men, notably the one who in 235 BCE (at the age of c.24) would become the reforming …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1359Δόνακεςreeds… similarly in other lexica. These glosses are examples of items made from reeds. For the first of them cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 18.576, where the accusative singular donakh=a occurs. [2] Likewise, according …Matched in noteshighshort
ι544ἹππίαςHippias… out one of these which fell into the sand. He made a great effort to find it and when the tooth could not be discovered he groaned and spoke to his attendants: "This land …Matched in noteshighmedium
α3538Ἀποσπάδαςslips… are more similar in the Greek than they can be made to sound in translation: a)pospa/das and a)pospa/dontas. [1] Used especially for slips that have been cut off for grafting. See web address 1 …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1124Διμήτωρtwice-born… ripens its grape-clusters -- the god thus being considered as having been born once from the earth and again from the vine"), and generally LSJ s.v.Matched in noteshighshort
κ2216Κῴδιονsmall fleece, small sheepskin rug (for sleeping on) or cloak (against rain)… krati/nion, found in Athenaeus (Deipnosophists, Epitome 2.2.58.29-31) for a drinking-cup made of cornel-wood. [7] The English does not capture the distinction between entering a dramatic contest and writing the script of a comedy. The …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ742Λωτόςlotus, lotos… musical instrument in question was so called because it was made from a stalk of one of the plants called lotus, although in the second quotation below an instrument made of horn seems to …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ1906Κοδρίτης ἄρτοςquartered loaf, coarsegrain loaf… is a corruption of a quite different one, xondri/ths, i.e. made from coarsegrain flour (see LSJ s.v.).Matched in noteshighshort
κ2318Κράμβηcabbage… the Etymologicum Gudianum and Etymologicum Magnum; kora/mbh and kora/mblh are made up from ko/rh "pupil" and a)mblu/nw "make (something) dull". See the LSJ entry for kra/mbh at web address 1. [2] In the Etymologicum …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε1452Ἐντεθρίωταιhas been figged-up… address 1); cf. delta 453. On the dish called qri=on made "of eggs, milk, lard, flour, honey, cheese, etc., wrapped in fig-leaves," see LSJ s.v. II.Matched in noteshighshort
μ1022Μῆχοςdevice… 84 and n.2 thereto). The context is a drunkard who, having prayed to Demeter that she would go 'one hundred suns' without alcoholic drink if saved from illness, discharges the vow early by arranging …Matched in noteshighshort
α4298Ἀσφόδελοςasphodel… when fried, its seed if roasted, and its tuberous roots made a good meal when chopped up with figs. It was eaten again in Greece during the First World War" (R. Sallares, The Ecology …Matched in noteshighshort
κ458ΚάσοςKasos, Casus… Polunin, no. 1801), but gets its common modern name from having propagated so invasively on the island of Bermuda. [2] Aelian fr. 120 Hercher (123d Domingo-Forasté), unplaced; cf. delta 233, pi 2054; and mu …Matched in noteshighshort
α4670Ἀχανὲς πέλαγοςyawning sea… (cf. mu 1437) is uncertain, but Adler mentions the link made by one of her predecessors, Bernhardy, with pi 1255, and attributes it to Iamblichus. The Teubner editor E. Habrich (fr. 125) expresses doubt, …Matched in noteshighshort
ε722Ἐκφυλλοφορῆσαιto leaf out… pot: cf. omicron 716, omicron 717. [2] No mention is made of ekphyllophoria in [Demosthenes] 59. Adler asserted that correct reference is Aeschines 1.111, which certainly does mention it. But another (better?) possibility is …Matched in noteshighmedium
β400ΒοσόρBosor… the image of God as a warrior dripping blood after having "trodden the winepress of Botsrah". Cyril of Jerusalem (Lecture 13, paragraph 27, at web address 1) apparently did not understand the reference and …Matched in noteshighshort
β587ΒύβλονByblian… or its component parts; the papyrus sheets, rolls and books made from it; and the writings thereon, especially sacred ones -- ultimately, indeed, "the Bible" (through bybl-/bibl- assimilation). [2] Aelian fr. 44f Domingo-Forasté (41 …Matched in noteshighmedium
αι60Αἰγίςgarment; net; web; cuirass; wood-grain… [2] What 'saying' (not in Harpok.) is meant is not made clear. [3] On pines see generally LSJ s.v. ai)gi/s, III. [4] The Suda here ascribes what Herodotus says (above) to Nymphodorus; cf. primary …Matched in noteshighshort
ε947Ἔμβολαbolts, rams… plural headword occurs. [2] i.e. bronze statues melted down and made into rams. Quotation attributed to Aelian (fr. 75 Hercher, 78b Domingo-Forasté). Conjoined by Hercher to another unattributed quotation found in alpha 1410. [3] …Matched in noteshighshort
ι387Ἴξαλοςjumping… garbled xw/rois. On this epigram, in which a bow is made from a pair of goat horns, see Gow and Page (vol. I, 178), (vol. II, 512-513), and another extract at kappa 1364; cf. …Matched in noteshighshort