A.“ἔπα^σα” LXX Ex.9.8 and in compds. :— Med., aor. ἐπα^σάμην ib.3 Ma.1.18 :— Pass., aor. ἐπάσθην ( ἐπ-) Pl.R.405e : pf. “πέπασμαι” LXX Es.1.6, etc. : plpf. “ἐπέπαστο” A.R.1.729, “πέπαστο” Longus 1.12 : Hom. uses only pres. and impf., and these only in Il. :— sprinkle, ἐπὶ . . ὀδυνήφατα φάρμακα πάσσων laying healing drugs upon a wound, Il.5.401,900, etc.; “τὰ Δέλφιδος ὀστία πάσσω” Theoc.2.21 ; esp. sprinkle salt, c. gen. partit., πάσσε δ᾽ ἁλὸς θείοιο sprinkle some salt, Il. 9.214 ; “π. τῶν ἁλῶν ἐὶ τὸ πῦρ” Luc. DMeretr.4.5.
2. besprinkle, οὔκουν . . σεαυτὸν ἁλσὶ πάσεις ; Crates Com. l. c., cf. Thphr. Char.9.2 ; χρυσῷ, ῥόδοις π. τινά, Ar.Nu.912, 1330.
II. Med., sprinkle oneself with ashes, LXX 3 Ma.1.18.