libamen

Definitiones

libation, offering to the gods; firstfruits

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Aequivalentia

Exempla

“Nōmine ab auctōris dūcunt lībāmina nōmen lībaque, quod sānctīs pars datur inde focīs. Libations and cakes draw their names from the name of their inventor, because a portion of them is being offered upon the sacred hearths. (Ovid credits the god Liber, or Bacchus, with the origin of ancient sacred ritual practices, such as offering a ‘‘libamen’’ (libation) and a ‘‘libum’’ (cake). For⟳ another likely link to Liber’s name – and the Latin ‘‘libo⟳’’ – see also the Greek λείβω, ‘‘to pour.’’)”

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