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Libation (Sponde)

The ritual pouring out of wine, oil, milk, or honey to the gods or the dead, accompanying prayers, oaths, meals, and departures.

How it traveled

  1. Histories
    Thurii (Magna Graecia) · -425
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  2. Cyropaedia
    Athens · -354
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  3. Anabasis
    Athens · -354
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  4. Hellenica
    Athens · -354
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  5. Quaestiones Convivales
    Chaeronea · 120
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  6. Quaestiones Romanae
    Chaeronea · 120
    explains
  7. Description of Greece
    — · 180
    explains
  8. Deipnosophistae
    Naucratis · 230
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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 10.30↗explains

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 15.47↗explains

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 5.7↗explains

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Herodotus, Histories 2.151.2↗explains

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Herodotus, Histories 7.54.2↗explains

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Xenophon, Anabasis 4.3.13↗explains

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 1.23↗explains

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 10.24↗explains

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 11.71↗explains

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 11.73↗explains

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 15.63↗explains

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Herodotus, Histories 7.117.1↗explains

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Pausanias, Description of Greece 5.15.11↗explains

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Pausanias, Description of Greece 5.15.12↗explains

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Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae 34↗explains

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Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae 45↗explains

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Pausanias, Description of Greece 5.15.10↗explains

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 11.111↗explains

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 11.8↗explains

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