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
- T
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..."- P
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..." - P
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..."