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18 entries for having made a libation

αι250Αἰολομίτρηςagile with a waistband [or: having a multicoloured or twisted or flashing waistband]; having a multicoloured diadem… bibliography). Like a shield or greaves the latter might be made of leather coated with bronze. It sharply constricted the waist of a warrior, and thereby probably protected him at the narrow part of …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1499Δραματουργήσαςhaving staged a drama, having fabricated… the reading of the newly recovered Zavordensis ms, restores sunqei/s ('having composed'), which surely ought to have been (if it wasn't actually) what the Suda compiler wrote as well (as suggested already by Portus …Matched in noteshighshort
β488Βωμολοχεύσαιτο(if one) were to play the wit at the altar… also cited in Suda entries on "bends, twists" from harmony made by the poets of the new dithyramb (delta 1650, kappa 2647; cf. discussion in the notes to delta 1029). For the concepts of …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
γ457Γρῖφοςriddle, conundrum… "to test memory" (mnhmo/neia), and distinguishes it from enigma as having not only the character of a game but also a serious side. The person solving the riddle received a particular portion of meat, …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
κ1500ΚηκίδιοςKekidios… certainly has to do with the yellow dye or ink made from oak-gall or ink-gall (khki/s, kappa 1501); such a yellow dye might have been used in an old-fashioned ritual. [4] cf. tau 378.Matched in noteshighshort
ε1294Ἔνηthe day after tomorrow; the old… 172, where our texts read aspirated e(/nhn, following the distinction made in Harpocration (epsilon54 Keaney) and other lexica (see epsilon 1295), rather than the smooth breathing in this citation and at Hesychius epsilon1116. The …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2290Κῷος πρὸς ΧῖονCoös against Chios, Coan against Chian… e)/ndon "inside", ignoring the rough breathings in the process (aspiration having been lost in Byzantine Greek pronunciation). The gambling terms are also the adjectives from the place-names Chios and Cos, which gives rise to …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2482Κρότωνος ὑγιέστεροςsounder than a tick; sounder than Croton… Porson realised) to make sense. Both sources ignore the distinction made by Herodian (On the declension of nouns 3.2.733.4-5,29-30 = Lentz's edition 1.36) between *kro/twn, the S Italian city (and its eponymous hero) and …Matched in noteshighshort
α833Ἀκέραιονunblemished… error is the abbreviation of the phrase "the man not having external blemishes" (cf. the philosopher Timaeus, in a passage cited by Proclus, in R. 2.49.23, distinguishing 'a body free from external blemishes' sw=ma …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3864Ἐφέσια γράμματαEphesian letters… encountered the practitioners of these "curious arts" and succeeded in having them burn many of their sacred books (Acts 19.19). Modern discussion of the Ephesia grammata is extensive. Bernabe [below] gives and discusses secondary …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1284Κελαινεφέςof the black clouds; black… edition on Iliad 2.412, "the significance of the second element having been lost." Hainsworth cites it as an example of "modification" (58f.), where "the poet desires to use a certain formulaic word association" (61). …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2807Ἐποποῖepopoi (in hoopoe-ese)… 1639, delta 1029) to stop reciting lines, for he has made his point! [12] Acharnians 64. The first exclamation is one of mock despair; cf. Peace 248 (note 18 below), on seeing the dress …Matched in noteshighlong
μ1036ΜίδαςMidas… to the Dionysus myth, for Midas wronged Silenus, when he made him drunk and forced him to reveal the secret of life (in most versions, that it is better never to have lived). [9] …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ604Λίσποιsmooths; half-dice… 'on account of' + the genitive of a noun phrase, made up of a noun acting for the verb and an adjective for the adverb ("on account of incessant sitting at…"), itself governing e)pi\ …Matched in noteshighmedium
αι253Αἰόλοςundulating, wavelike, advancing in a winding or rolling fashion, agile in turning side to side; multicoloured, discoloured, black or chestnut with white markings; easily moved, changeable, wily, quick-witted, liable to metamorphosis, disturbed in mind; whirling; self-generating in movement, ever-turning; lively, flashing, shimmering… to archaeologists (see Page, note 97) and to etymologists, as having no analogy or explanation for the ending ?olos, "which may seem embarrassing for the theory" (Chantraine). In 1950 Ernst Fraenkel advanced the most …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1490Δράγματαhandfuls of uncut corn, trusses… Greek Anthology 6.44.2-4 (perhaps by Leonidas of Tarentum), on Heronax's libations to Satyrs and Dionysus; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 137), (vol. II, 391-392), and other extracts from this epigram at kappa 24 …Matched in noteshighshort

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