libans
Dictionary entries
- Entry →libo, libare, libavi, libatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
nibble, sip; pour in offering/a libation; impair; graze, touch, skim (over);
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Asinaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...homines mortui incursant boves. DEM. Modo pol percepi, Libane, quid istuc sit loci: ubi fit polenta, te fortasse..."
Liber Primus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...pinguia letifera perfringere colla bipenni. ipse ter aequoreo libans carchesia patri sic ait Aesonides: 'o qui spumantia nutu..."Aeneid V
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...magna medius comitante caterva. hic duo rite mero libans carchesia Baccho fundit humi, duo lacte novo, duo sanguine..."Liber II
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...medio et socii cratera coronant, te libans, Lenaee, uocat pecorisque magistris uelocis iaculi certamina ponit in ulmo, corporaque..."