The corpus record — Latin

libamen

libamen · n

that which is poured out in offerings to the gods, a drinkoffering, libation

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Where it lives

Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Tacitus 1 · 3.24/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 1 · 0.89/10k
Thebais 5 · 0.8/10k
Punica 5 · 0.66/10k
Argonautica 2 · 0.54/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lībāmen — Lewis & Short

lībāmen, ĭnis, n.libo,

I that which is poured out in offerings to the gods, a drinkoffering, libation (poet. for libamentum), Ov. F. 3, 733: pingui cumulat libamine flammam, Val. Fl. 1, 204: setas Ignibus imponit, libamina prima, the hairs offered as a beginning of the sacrifice, Verg. A. 6, 246.—So (eccl. Lat.) of the Mosaic drinkofferings: vinum libaminum bibere, Vulg. Deut. 32, 38; id. 1 Par. 29, 21.—

B Transf., that which is thrown upon a funeral pile, an offering, Stat. Th. 6, 224.—

II Trop., the first enjoyment of a thing: tu nova servatae capies: libamina famae, Ov. H. 4, 27.

In the wild

libamine Apuleius, Florida 1
libamina Ovid, Epistulae 4.27
libamina Historia Augusta, Tacitus 9
libamina Statius, Thebais 1.513
libamina Silius Italicus, Punica 10.551
libamina Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos Liber 8

6 of 23 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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