From upper earth rolls copious through the wood.
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,