The incense also it behoves to burn.
[They besprinkle the fire and its adjuncts with wine, and then place incense on the fire.
Second Priest.
Great Jupiter, direct thy force benign
For good to sad Numantia in her woe,
And turn to naught the stern opposing sign.
First Priest.
As burns the sacred incense in the glow,
Forced into smoke by virtue of the fire,
So exercise thy virtue on the foe,