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32 entries for having made a libation

ε2343Ἐπιθυμῶνdesiring… to Aristophanes, Knights 392 (web address 1), where reference is made to Kleon's capture of the Spartan troops on Sphakteria in 424 BCE; cf. kappa 1731. But if so, the statement is odd, since …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2648ΚυκλοβόροςKykloboros, Cycloborus… Hesychius kappa4476. No non-lexicographical reference to this supposed river is made outside Aristophanes (here and at fr. 636 Kock). One of the scholia to the Knights passage offers a different explanation, a circular place …Matched in noteshighshort
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
β119ΒαρόειςweightyI have made a guess at the meaning of this term, not in LSJ, which occurs only here.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3241Ἔσφηλεtoppled… Thucydides 2.87.3). [1] Likewise in Hesychius (who also gives the 'made to topple' gloss) and other lexica. [2] Arrian, Parthica fr. 22 (preserved only here). For Crassus cf. alpha 2721, pi 30.Matched in noteshighshort
ε1483Ἐν τῷ μέρειin one's turn… (see next note) reads i)dw\n d' e)kei=nos ("and that man having seen...") instead of i)dw\n ke)kei=nos [3] Babrius 32.5-6 Luzzatto-La Penna (4-5 Crusius).Matched in noteshighshort
ε2747Ἐπιφαίνεταιappears uponThe same distinction is made in reverse at upsilon 629.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3874Ἐφεστρίςephestris, mantle… delayed gloss on the headword is unparalleled elsewhere, but for '[made] out of goat hairs' see also under epsilon 52 (and cf. more generally kappa 1588). [3] Dexippus FGrH 100 F29.23-24 (preserved in the …Matched in noteshighshort
ε926Ἐμάλθαξανthey softened… [3] Adler cites Lexica Segueriana 295.6 as a parallel, where "made gentle" (katapra/u+nan) is used as one of the glosses for the aorist infinitive form of the verb found here as the headword (malqa/cai: …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
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
α3279Ἄποδαςfootless… 1018. [2] alpha 1018 and alpha 1019. Huns, being horsemen, made clumsy pedestrians, allegedly.Matched in noteshighshort
α307Ἀγοραίαν δίκηνagora lawsuit, forensic lawsuitAn opaque entry, and made the more so because it appears in other lexica in different forms. In Photius (alpha231 Theodoridis) the lemma itself is the adjective only, i.e. di/khn is lacking; the Synagoge …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2536Κοιλάδα κλαυθμῶνοςvalley of lamentation… the headword phrase appears. Manuscripts of the Septuagint vary between having the word for 'valley' in the accusative (as here, and cf. kappa 2537) and in the dative.Matched in noteshighshort
α4594Ἀφευθεὶς τὸν πρωκτόνsinged about the anus… a sucking-pig"; it is scholiastic comment that "he said this having been singed", which is in turn further glossed as "meaning burned". For the Aristophanes passage (which does at least use the verb a)feu/ein …Matched in noteshighshort
β596Βύσσινονflaxen… one cannot dye a garment 'with' bussos; rather, it is made from that textile and then dyed. [2] Greek Anthology 6.265.3-4 (Nossis); cf. epsiloniota 141. The deity addressed is Hera. On this epigram see …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1960Ἐπανένταςremitting… Demosthenes' Second Olynthiac, i.e. Demosthenes 2.30 (web address 1). There, having created the image of a system of Athenian political factions which behave like tax-symmories, he urges his fellow-citizens to 'remit' it. The extant …Matched in noteshighshort
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
ε2502Ἐπιωγήshelter… found in commentary on that passage, where it is often made clear that the reference is to coastal landforms that provide safe harbor for ships, rather than to any covering overhead; cf. Apollonius Sophistes, …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1998Ἐπαυχοῦσιexulting in… glossed as such. In the original, the form is e)pauxh/sas ('having exulted'), an aorist active participle agreeing with a first person singular subject.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2596Ἐπισπαστήρωνof the door-pulls… pi 2729 where at least one other intrusive gloss has made its way into the quotation.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
ε2780Ἐπιχώρησιςacknowledgement… more similar in the Greek than they can readily be made to sound in translation. Here, both are nominative singulars of these feminine nouns -- the headword one perhaps, though not necessarily, generated by …Matched in noteshighshort
αι66Αἴγλης ΧάριτεςAigle's Graces… the genealogists mentioned here have not merely personified Aigle but made her the mother of the Graces.Matched in noteshighshort
μ1116Μισθαρνεῖνto earn pay… among his own troops about his own illness. This rumor made its way to the Byzantine garrison which consequently became lackadaisical, allowing the Sassanids to breach the pass; cf. alpha 4485. For more on …Matched in noteshighshort
α402Ἀγχίνουςtight-witted… o( basileu/s (aorist active participle, masculine/nominative genitive singular: "the emperor having eulogized/recommended/advocated"). On the territories of the Avars and of their surrounding ethnic groups in mid-C6 CE, see Louth (110, map). [3] From an …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
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
ε2498Ἐπὶ ξυροῦon a razor… speech: e)pi\ curou= a)kmh=s ('on a razor's edge'), which was made popular by its appearance in Homer, Iliad 10.173 (web address 1), a passage cited by the Etymologicum Magnum in its entry on e)pi\ …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2592Ἐπισμῇbesmears… Etmologicum Magnum 721.20-28). [3] Because the things being smeared are made of some objectionable substance which it would offend or injure the person smeared to be in contact with? Possibly it should be translated …Matched in noteshighmedium

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