Note 287 — ARRIAN ON COURSING.

Σπένδειν. Wine was generally used in these libations, but not always; for there were νηφάλια ἱερὰ—sober sacrifices, wherein no wine was poured forth. Generally, however, wine was employed, as we learn from Æneid. L. vi. 244.Virgil’s “frontique invergit vina sacerdos.”