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11 entries for having made a libation

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
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
μ1435Μυριάμφορονten-thousand-amphora; with a ten-thousand-amphora capacityThe headword, extracted from the quotation given, is the neuter accusative (and nominative and vocative) singular form of the specially-made-up two-ending adjective muria/mforos, -on; see generally LSJ s.v. Like other compounds with myrios (and …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
μ280Ματήσετονthe two would hesitate… the battle. The verb mata/w is used of horses that, having grown restive, shirk their work (Cunliffe, p. 256). [1] The gloss is the aorist subjunctive active, third person plural, of the verb a)mele/w, …Matched in noteshighshort
μ1308Μοχθηρίαdepravity, nastiness, wickedness… scholion: the sausage-seller accuses Paphlagon (= Kleon: kappa 1731) of having sold hides that were sliced from ox carcasses, rather than pulled, so as to retain more fat and appear thicker, as if from …Matched in noteshighshort
μ1232Μόνον καὶ ἓν διαφέρειmonad and one differ… or Ideas from sensible things and further to his mentor's having posited a realm of "mathematical entities" intermediate between noetic and aesthetic being; cf. Metaphysics 987b14-18 (web address 2) and Burkert, pp. 30-1.Matched in noteshighshort
μ360Μεγαλεῖονmagnificent, splendid… recruited among the Gauls (Briscoe, 56; Livy 28.46). But despite having thus substantially bolstered his army, in 203 Mago's troops were routed and the general gravely wounded in a major battle with a Roman …Matched in noteshighshort
μ1310Μοχθηρόςwicked, depraved, nasty, wretched… uses an adverbial form of the adjective proparocu/tonos, -on, meaning having an acute accent on the antepenultimate syllable (Dickey, p. 255). [2] cf. Photius' Lexicon (mu562 Theodoridis), Hesychius mu1764, Lexica Segueriana 304.5; Ammonius, De …Matched in noteshighmedium
μ1306ΜουσώνιοςMusonius… Stoic philosopher and knight Gaius Musonius Rufus (OCD(4) s.v.). Despite having trained as a sophist at Alexandria and taught rhetoric in Athens, Musonius ascended politically to become vicarius Macedoniae in 362 CE and vicarius …Matched in noteshighmedium
μ1430Μύωψhorse-fly; goad, spur… occurs at Polybius 11.18.4 (web address 2): prosqe/nta tou\s mu/wpas (having applied the spurs). [Adler notes that mss GM preferred the genitive plural a)mfote/rwn tw=n merw=n (from either of the sides) for the Suda's …Matched in noteshighmedium