# Lucian, The Passing of Peregrinus 7

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“ἀλλὰ ἐπ’ αἰθομένοις τοῖς προτέροις ἱερείοις ἐπέχει τῶν σπονδῶν.”  
I’ve been having trouble with this clause, mainly the genitive noun at the end. A. M. Harmon translates it as:  
“but pouring a libation on the previous sacrificial offerings while they were still ablaze.”  
As far as I can tell from Liddell, ἐπέχω can’t take a genitive object except when it has the meaning of stopping or ceasing from something, so how is he getting “pouring out a libation”?

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**Author:** ![MattK](https://www.textkit.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@MattK](https://www.textkit.com/u/MattK)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 6:08am UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/lucian-the-passing-of-peregrinus-7/20844/2 "2024-08-25T06:08:41Z")

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The verb is actually ἐπιχέω