libamus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →libo, libare, libavi, libatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
nibble, sip; pour in offering/a libation; impair; graze, touch, skim (over);
pl. pres. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Liber II
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...uitis, hic fertilis uuae, hic laticis, qualem pateris libamus et auro, inflauit cum pinguis ebur Tyrrhenus ad aras..."Liber XVI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...cruorem effudit, humum super spargens, propius vocato quaestore 'libamus' inquit 'Iovi liberatori specta, invenis; et omen quidem..."