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391 entries for having made a libation

α2095ἈνάσχωI would cease[1] A phrase (a quotation?) illustrating not the point just made, but the fact that this verb is also used absolutely.Matched in noteshighshort
α749Ἄθως καλύπτει πλευρὰ Λημνίας βοόςAthos conceals the flank of a Lemnian cow… ought to be the mountain, not the cow, that is "made of white stone".) For confirmation that the 2000-meter-high Mt. Athos (cf. alpha 745) does, at sunset, cast its shadow as far as the …Matched in noteshighshort
μ1436Μυριέλικτοςcountless-coiled; with countless coils… generally Barrington Atlas map 88 grid A2) with Jason after having wielded her sorcery to aid his filching of the golden fleece; cf. mu 878. [2] The quotation is Eunapius fr. 68 FHG (4.44); …Matched in noteshighshort
λ344Λευστήρstone-thrower, oppressor… morphologically and in usage (LSJ s.v). The phrase "deserving of having stones cast" is used by Photius and others to define kataleu/simon, as is seen at kappa 615; the Suda may have copied this …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1515ΚηλῶI charm, I beguile… 1505, kappa 1515). The link between the two senses is made in epsilon 436; but prior to that, Choeroboscus also made the connection (Epimerismi on the Psalms p. 182 Gaisford), deriving ka/llos "beauty" from …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1830Κλῴζεταιis hooted at… merely players." *klw/zein (no iota subscript) is properly the sound made by jackdaws; figuratively it is a noise made to indicate disapproval (LSJ s.v.). *suri/zein, Attic suri/ttein, is properly to play the syrinx (sigma …Matched in noteshighshort
ει35Εἴδησιςknowledge… scientific knowledge (or 'to know' in the strict sense) implies having the principles, causes and elements of that we are accounting for. In other words, you know something strictly if and only if you …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ195Λαισήϊονbuckler, targetMade of animal hide. cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 5.453, where the word occurs: web address 1. See also Herodotus 7.91 (on the Cilicians in Xerxes' army).Matched in noteshighshort
κ24Κάδοςkados, jar… 6.44.3-4 (attributed by some to Leonidas of Tarentum), on Heronax's libations to Satyrs and Dionysus after first vintages from new vineyards; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 137), (vol. II, 391-392), and other extracts …Matched in noteshighshort
ι28ἸαμβρῆςIambres, JambresMentioned in Paul's Second Epistle to Timothy (3.8) as having opposed Moses. See also iota 34; Jewish Encyclopedia entry at web address 1.Matched in noteshighshort
ε671Ἐκτόπωςextraordinarily… been omitted: it begins with e)rasqei=sa au)tou= e)kto/pws "she [Antonina] having fallen in love with him [Theodosius] extraordinarily" and continues later with e)mi/gnuto de\ au)tw=| [...] e)n parabu/stw| "she had intercourse with him in …Matched in noteshighshort
β556ΒρουμάλιαBrumalia… kai\ a)kolou/qws e(/ws tou= w: "from those with a name having an alpha, and so forth, right up to the omega". The Latin alphabet has no omega; Malalas in fact describes the alphabetical ordering …Matched in noteshighmedium
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
β377Βομβύλονgurgling-vessel… see LSJ s.v. II. The gurgling sound which this vessel made when pouring connects it to other "bombul-" words (beta 375, beta 376.)Matched in noteshighshort
ε307Ἐθελοντηδόνspontaneously, voluntarily… Thucydides 8.98.2 (web address 1). [2] This extra point is made to avoid the spelling of epsilon 310. (Contrast epsilon 308.)Matched in noteshighshort
ε3213ἙστιάδεςHestiades… is unidentifiable in this precise form, though the final sentence ('Having accomplished etc.') summarizes Eusebius, Life of Constantine 3.46.1-47.1. The relative pronoun a(\s connects the passage awkwardly to the apparently unrelated note on the …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε2789Ἐπλινθεύθησανthey were bricked in… and alter the translation as follows: "being shut up by having a structure built around one..." This emendation receives some support from the parallel entry in the Glossae rhetoricae (see note above), where a …Matched in noteshighshort
μ1065ΜίλιονMilion, milestone… the procession of the statue in greater detail: "Constantine had made another statue of himself in gilded wood, which held the Tyche of the city, itself also gilded, in its right hand. He mandated …Matched in noteshighmedium
α4673Ἄχαριharsh… the Romans and the Persians ended without any major battles having been initiated; Procopius evidently confuses the two conflicts here (see Kaldellis (6 note 11)). [4] Part of Aelian fr. 209 Hercher (210b Domingo-Forasté); …Matched in noteshighmedium
α3078Ἀπεσχεδιάζετοwas improvising… they are passives, render "was being improvised" and "was being made ready".)Matched in noteshighshort
ι540Ἱππημολγόςmare-milker… on Homer, Iliad 13.5 (web address 1), where mention is made (in the genitive plural) of a people called the Hippemolgoi.Matched in noteshighshort
χ150Χαυνοπολίταςgaping-citizensThe made-up headword, in the accusative plural, is quoted from Aristophanes, Acharnians 635 (web address 1 below); the gloss is taken from the scholia to this line.Matched in noteshighshort
ν478Νόμοςnomos… takth/n, and Theodoridis on Photius (above) regards it as correct: 'having an ordered harmony'. [2] cf. omicron 574, omicron 575, omicron 585. On Terpander, see tau 354. [3] Not in LSJ, but presumably means …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε1745Ἐξῄρηνταιthey have been taken out… in Hesychius but glossed there with e)chrh/mwntai "they have been made desolate"). cf. epsilon 1580, epsilon 1582, epsilon 1583.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2247Ἐπιβοῶμαι σεI call on you… that this verb takes the accusative. (The same point is made at epsilon 2245.)Matched in noteshighshort
α4316ἌτταλοςAttalos, Attalus… omitted. [6] The Suda paraphrases the start of Polybios 18.41.8, 'having received this honour and having lived' (tuxw\n de\ th=s timh=s taut/hs kai\ biw/sas). For the first phrase the Suda illogically substitutes 'having reigned', …Matched in noteshighmedium
α4625Ἀφῖχθαιto have come to, to have returned… perfect infinitive of the deponent verb a)fikne/omai, "come to", also having the sense of "return". See web address 1 below for a link to the LSJ entry.Matched in noteshighshort
ει261Εἰσηγορίαreproach… a difference of initial preposition) than they can readily be made to appear in translation.Matched in noteshighshort
ε134Ἐγκύκλιοςcyclical, periodic… order to encourage loyalty. Here the general seems to have made an annual payment of this sort; this is similar to the way modern companies will give a Christmas bonus to keep employees happy. …Matched in noteshighshort
δ458Δημοσιεύωνbeing a public [doctor]… there is a shift to the middle voice where the libation is clearly the metaphor of a treaty (as in Herodotus 3.144, Thucydides 4.99 and in this same work, at lines 199 and 1534). …Matched in noteshighshort

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