Then near the altar of the darting King,
Dispos’d in rank their hecatomb they bring;585
With water purify their hands, and take
The sacred off’ring of the salted cake;
While thus with arms devoutly rais’d in air,
And solemn voice, the Priest directs his pray’r.”
Pope’s Homer’s Iliad, book i.
“And Menalaus came unbid, the last.485
The chiefs surround the destined beast, and take
The sacred off’ring of the salted cake: