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399 entries for having made a libation

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
α4469Αὐτήshe, it… whole dispensation: Incarnation, Passion, and Resurrection. When the decision was made to celebrate the Resurrection on a Sunday, rather than always on 14 Nisan (as the Quartodecimans did), March 25 remained as a feast …Matched in noteshighmedium
α2015Ἀνάπηρον ψυχήνcrippled soul, mutilated soul… capture of Bryzakios and the victory over his forces by having the Persian officer killed at a banquet (spring/summer of 591); cf. de Boor (197-198), Whitby (139), and delta 125. On Chosroes, Persian king …Matched in noteshighmedium
γ97Γεγωνόνloud, sonorous… unrelated verb, gi/gnomai; glossed in Hesychius gamma258 as gegonw/s, u(pa/rxwn "having become, being." Latte regards it as extracted from Euripides, Phoenician Women 123, where the ti/s is interrogative (web address 1): ti/s, po/qen gegw/s …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
ε3769Εὐτοκίαeasy delivery, fertility… on Photius s.v. notes Bekker's view that the two words made up a single (unglossed) phrase. The noun (LSJ entry at web address 1) was especially favoured by Philo Judaeus.Matched in noteshighshort
ν603Νῦν δήjust now… reads ou(/tw ('thus') which produces far better sense ("..had thus made these propositions..."). [2] An approximation of Euripides, Hippolytus 233-235 (web address 2). [3] Euripides fr. 535 Nauck (and Kannicht), probably garbled. Nauck reads …Matched in noteshighmedium
α2011Ἀναπηδῶνleaping upFor the same point made with another verb, see under alpha 2074. [1] sc. As well as in the masculine. This is the nominative singular of the present participle of the contract verb a)naphda/w.Matched in noteshighshort
α3568Ἀποσυστῆσαιto appoint, to introduce… and elsewhere; Phrynichus, Praeparatio sophistica fr. 253. The point being made is that the doubly compound headword infinitive a)posusth=sai (presumably quoted from somewhere, though otherwise unattested) conveys nothing more than susth=sai would.Matched in noteshighshort
ν310Νηκτάswimming [things]… Solomon 19.19 LXX: "he transformed the terrestrial to aquatic, and made the swimming walk on land."Matched in noteshighshort
μ210ΜάρκιοςMarkios, Marcius… banishment Coriolanus took refuge among the Volscians (cf. mu 211). Having gained the confidence of their leader Tullus Attius (cf. tau 243 n.2) and the rest of the Volscians (cf. Dion.Hal. 8.1-3), he then …Matched in noteshighlong
δ559Διαθέσειςdispositions… virtue is a form of knowledge and they added (probably having Aristotle’s discussion of virtue in mind) that virtue is a “disposition”, or rather “a consistent disposition of the commanding part of the soul” …Matched in noteshighmedium
α3279Ἄποδαςfootless… 1018. [2] alpha 1018 and alpha 1019. Huns, being horsemen, made clumsy pedestrians, allegedly.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1244ΚέκληκαI have calledThis entry glosses an unfamiliar perfect of kale/w (the tense having died out in the vernacular by then) with a familiar aorist of the same verb. Perhaps from the Septuagint (five instances); alternatively, a …Matched in noteshighshort
α3909ἈρίστιπποςAristippos, Aristippus… Euripides, Bacchae 836 (web address 1 below). The second trimeter, "having been born a male and from a male line", appears to be an addition. [3] Euripides, Bacchae 317-318 (web address 2).Matched in noteshighmedium
α842Ἀκεσίας ἰάσατοAkesias healed… become Akesias" (Epistulae 476.5). The proverb clearly implies that Akesias made things worse than they were before. It may be that the possible etymology of Akesias's name from a verb that means both to …Matched in noteshighshort
α111Ἀγαθῆς Τύχης νεώςtemple of Good Fortune… entry in Harpokration -- which prompted the present one, without having the present gloss (also in Photius, Lexicon alpha69 Theodoridis) -- it was mentioned by Lycurgus (fr. 23 Conomis) "and others"; probably, therefore, it …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
λ778Λυγμόςhiccup, screech… more similar in the Greek than they can readily be made to seem in translation; the former is essentially a foreshortening of the latter. cf. lambda 789, omicron 181, omicron 192, omicron 193, omicron …Matched in noteshighshort
α117ἈγαθοκλῆςAgathokles, Agathocles… probably sybolises impudence and shamelessness; the buzzard, in Greek triorkhes, having three testicles, presumably symbolises insatiable lust, which is assumed to characterise the true pornos'. Cf. tau 995, where the first part of this …Matched in noteshighmedium
β436Βουλήσεται κἂν ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ τυχεῖν ὢν μᾶλλον ἢ κρῖναι κακῶςhe will wish even to be in Egypt rather than to make a bad judgment… as Herodotus says: 'For then Thebes was rained upon, never having been rained upon before'").] [1] An approximation of Herodotus 3.10.3; again at upsilon 677.Matched in noteshighshort
δ15Δαΐμονοςof a daimon… perhaps this led some later poet to treat dai/monos as having four syllables.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1472Δῶρονhand, hand's-breadthHomer, Iliad 4.109 (on the ibex horns which had been made into Pandarus' bow), with exegesis from the scholia there. Already at delta 1439, and again at epsilon 406. The Greek 'palm' equates to …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3289Ἑτερόγναθοςother-jawed… in the Etymologicum Magnum and elsewhere. In its technical sense ('having one side of the mouth harder than the other': LSJ s.v.) the headword is applied to horses by Xenophon and other writers.Matched in noteshighshort
μ354Μεγακλέους κίοναςMegakles' pillars, Megacles' pillars… 1). A scholion to the line explains it thus: "i.e. having gone over to the house of your maternal uncle, Megakles, eat up the columns of that house, which are the only things remaining …Matched in noteshighshort