LOGOI

The corpus record

λοιβή

loibe · ἡ

pouring, drink-offering, water

Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

What it meant

λοιβ-ή · loib-ē — LSJ

pouring, drink-offering, drink-offering

pouring, only in religious sense, drink-offering, λοιβῇ τε κνίσῃ τε with drink-offering and burnt-offering, Il. 9.500, cf. 4.49, 24.70; σοὶ δʼ αὖ λ. φέρον says Odysseus to the Cyclops, Od. 9.349: later, like σπονδαί, χοαί (which are more freq.), in pl., Pi. N. 11.6, S. El. 52; λοιβαὶ Διός, offered to him, A. Fr. 55. -- Rare in Prose, λ. οἴνου Pl. Lg. 906d, referring to Il. 9.500.

2 water

of water generally, λ. Στυγός A.R. 2.291.

In the wild

6 of 17 attestations shown. Ask for more.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

Downloads

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Ask the librarian

Ask about λοιβή →