"If the sacrifice was in honour of the celestial gods, the throat was bent upwards towards heaven; but if made to the heroes, or infernal deities, it was killed with its throat toward the ground."-- "Elgin Marbles," vol i.

p.81.
"The jolly crew, unmindful of the past, The quarry share, their plenteous dinner haste, Some strip the skin; some portion out the spoil; The limbs yet trembling, in the caldrons boil; Some on the fire the reeking entrails broil.
Stretch'd on the grassy turf, at ease they dine, Restore their strength with meat, and cheer their souls with wine." Dryden's "Virgil," i.

293.
69 -- _Crown'd, i.e._ filled to the brim.

The custom of adorning goblets with flowers was of later date.
70 -- _He spoke,_ &c.

"When a friend inquired of Phidias what pattern he had formed his Olympian Jupiter, he is said to have answered by repeating the lines of the first Iliad in which the poet represents the majesty of the god in the most sublime terms; thereby signifying that the genius of Homer had inspired him with it.