A.drink neat wine; hence, breakfast, because this consisted of bread dipped in wine (Ath.1.11c sq.), Ar.Pl. 295, ubi v. Sch., Canthar.8: c. acc., ἀ. κοκκύμηλα to breakfast on plums, Ar.Fr.607; “μικρόν” Aristomen.14: metaph., c. gen., “ἀμιγοῦς ἠκρατίσω σοφίας” Ph.2.166:—later in Act. -ίζω, fut. -ιῶ, entertain at breakfast, “τοὺς ἐφήβους” Inscr.Prien.113.41: metaph., “ποτιζέτω καὶ ἀκρατιζέτω ψυχάς” Ph.1.103.
ἀκρα_τ-ίζομαι , (ἄκρα_τος)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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