Note 226 — THE THEOGONY.
George Chapman translation
Libation pours And is forsworn.]
It was customary to pour a libation, while taking a solemn oath. Thus in the third Iliad:
Then pouring from the beaker to the cups They fill’d them. All-glorious Jove, and ye, the powers of heaven! Whoso shall violate this contract first, So be their blood, their children’s and their own, Pour’d out, as this libation on the ground. Cowper.