Note 451 — THE LIBATION-POURERS

So, in Homer (Il. xxii. 79), Hecuba, when the entreaties of Priam had been in vain, makes this last appeal—

“Then to the front his mother rushed, in tears,

Her bosom bare, with either hand her breast

Sustaining, and with tears addressed him thus,

'Hector, my son, thy mother's breast revere.'”