Note 89 — Chapter V
Reading edition
“Hic duo rite mero libans carchesia Baccho
“Fundit humi.
Æn. V.
“Οἶνον δ’ἐκ δεπάων χαμάδις χέον, οὐδέ τις ἔτλη
“Πρὶν πιέειν, πρὶν λεῖψαι ὑπερμενέϊ Κρονίωνι.”
Ομηρ. η.
The Ashantees do so not only on solemn occasions, but invariably; and it would seem that the Greeks did, from the following words of Hecuba to Hector,
“Ἀλλὰ μέν’, ὄφρα κέ τοι μελιηδέα οἶνον ἐνείκω,
Ὡς σπείσῃς Διῒ πατρὶ καὶ ἄλλοις ἀθανάτοισι
Πρῶτον· ἔπειτα δέ κ’αὐτὸς ὀνήσεαι, αἴ κε πίῃσθα·”
Ομηρ, ζ.