sprinkle
πᾶσά τε ἐπιστήμη χωριζομένη δικαιοσύνης καὶ τῆς ἄλλης ἀρετῆς πανουργία, οὐ σοφία φαίνεται → every knowledge, when separated from justice and the other virtues, ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom | every form of knowledge when sundered from justice and the rest of virtue is seen to be plain roguery rather than wisdom
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 (Euripides, Andromache 166).
sprinkling the altars with the same lustral water: Ar. μιᾶς ἐκ χέρνιβος βωμοὺς περιρραίνοντες (Lys. 1129).
