sprinkle
ὁ κόσμος ἀλλοίωσις, ὁ βίος ὑπόληψις → the universe is flux, life is opinion | the universe is transformation: life is opinion | the universe is change, life is a fleeting impression | the universe—mutation: life—opinion
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
verb transitive
V. ῥαίνειν, παλύνειν, Ar. πάσσειν, προσραίνειν.
wet: P. and V. τέγγειν (Plato), ὑγραίνειν (Plato), βρέχειν (Plato), νοτίζειν (Plato and Aesch., Fragment), V. ὑδραίνειν, ὑγρώσσειν.
sprinkle over: P. ἐπιπάσσειν, V. καταστάζειν.
sprinkle with blood: P. and V. καθαιμάσσειν (Plato); see under blood.
sprinkling with your hand the waters of Achelous from golden vessels: V. ἐκ χρυσηλάτων τευχέων χερὶ σπείρουσαν Ἀχελῴου δρόσον (Eur., Andromache 166).
sprinkling the altars with the same lustral water: Ar. μιᾶς ἐκ χέρνιβος βωμοὺς περιρραίνοντες (Lys. 1129).
