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ἐπι-σπένδω ,
A.pour upon or over, esp. as a drink-offering, ἐπὶ τοῦ βωμοῦ οἶνον κατὰ τοῦ ἱρηΐου ἐ. Hdt.2.39; “οἶνον ἐ. κατὰ τῶν κεφαλέων” Id.4.62; “τοῖσι ἱροῖσι” Id.7.167; “νεκρῷ” A.Ag.1395; τοιαῖσδ᾽ ἐπ᾽ εὐχαῖς τάσδ᾽ ἐ. χοάς after the vows I pour these libations, Id.Ch.149: abs., Hdt.4.60; οὐδ᾽ ἄν τι θύων “οὐδ᾽ ἐπισπένδων ἄνοις” A.Fr.161; also “ἐ. δάκρυ” Theoc.23.38.
2.. promise, pledge, Leg.Gort.4.52, 6.11:—Med., accept in pledge, ib.6.13, al.
II.. Med., make a fresh treaty, Th.5.22.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1395
    • Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, 149
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.39
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.60
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.62
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.167
    • Thucydides, Histories, 5.22
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