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ἐπιστέφ-ω , in Hom. always in Med., κρητῆρας ἐπεστέψαντο ποτοῖο
A.filled them with wine, Il.1.470, Od.1.148, etc. (variously expld., cf. Ath.1.13d, 15.674e, and “ἐκστέφω” 1).
II.. to be full of or covered with, “τράπεσδαι μακωνίδων ἄρτων ἐπιστέφοισαι” Alcm.74 B.
III.. χοὰς ἐ. τινί pour libations as an honour to the dead, S. El.441.
IV.. Med., wreathe, “ἄνθεϊ χαίτην” Nonn.D.47.11:—also in Act., crown, surround, κύμασι Παταλήνην ib.27.158.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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