quaff
quaff
v. trans.
Drain (a cup): P. and V. ἐκπί̄νειν (Plat. Symp. 214a and Soph. Frag.), Ar. ῥοφεῖν.
Quaff a drink: P. and V. ἐκπί̄νειν (Dem.), Ar. and V. ῥοφεῖν, ἕλκειν, V. σπᾶν, ἀ̆νασπᾶν, Ar. ἐκροφεῖν ; see drink.
v. trans.
Drain (a cup): P. and V. ἐκπί̄νειν (Plat. Symp. 214a and Soph. Frag.), Ar. ῥοφεῖν.
Quaff a drink: P. and V. ἐκπί̄νειν (Dem.), Ar. and V. ῥοφεῖν, ἕλκειν, V. σπᾶν, ἀ̆νασπᾶν, Ar. ἐκροφεῖν ; see drink.
QUAFF
haurire (pocula Plin.; spumantem paterem Verg.; and IMPROP. sanguinem Cic.): potare (as translation it is pre-classical and post-Augustan): potitare (to quaff often a Plautinian word). OBS. perpotare is absolute in Cic. especially with totos dies or some other reference to a space of time: perpotare laticem (Lucr.).
haurire (pocula Plin.; spumantem paterem Verg.; and IMPROP. sanguinem Cic.): potare (as translation it is pre-classical and post-Augustan): potitare (to quaff often a Plautinian word). OBS. perpotare is absolute in Cic. especially with totos dies or some other reference to a space of time: perpotare laticem (Lucr.).
quaff (v. a. and n.): to drink in large draughts, also (poet) to drink with pleasure:
1. haurĭo, si, stum, 4 (chiefly poët.): he quaffed the foaming bowl, ille impiger hausit spumantem pateram, Virg. Aen. 1, 738: cratera, ib. 8, 679: pocula, Ov. M. 14, 277. Absol. (= intr. in Eng.), Cic. Brut. 83, 288.
2. dūco. xi, ctum, 3 (poet.): to q. the juice of the nectar, d. nectaris sucos, Hor. Od. 3, 3, 34: pocula Lesbii, ib. 1, 17, 22.
3. perpōto, 1, esp. absol. and continuous: cf. totos dies p., Cic Verr. 5, 33, fin.: also with obj. (poet.), to q. a bitter cup, p. amarum absinthi laticem, Lucr. 1, 939. Also the simple pōto, 1: and freq. pōtĭto, 1: cf.TO DRINK . The part. quaffed is sometimes expr. by the adj. pōtus agreeing with the obj.: having q.'d it (the bull's blood): eo poto, Cic. Brut. 11, 43: and as adj., wine-jars q.'d to the dregs, poti faece tenus cadi, Hor. Od. 3, 15, 16.
1. haurĭo, si, stum, 4 (chiefly poët.): he quaffed the foaming bowl, ille impiger hausit spumantem pateram, Virg. Aen. 1, 738: cratera, ib. 8, 679: pocula, Ov. M. 14, 277. Absol. (= intr. in Eng.), Cic. Brut. 83, 288.
2. dūco. xi, ctum, 3 (poet.): to q. the juice of the nectar, d. nectaris sucos, Hor. Od. 3, 3, 34: pocula Lesbii, ib. 1, 17, 22.
3. perpōto, 1, esp. absol. and continuous: cf. totos dies p., Cic Verr. 5, 33, fin.: also with obj. (poet.), to q. a bitter cup, p. amarum absinthi laticem, Lucr. 1, 939. Also the simple pōto, 1: and freq. pōtĭto, 1: cf.