A Biblical and Theological Dictionary / explanatory of the history, manners, and customs of the Jews, and neighbouring nations

by Richard Watson

The sacred fillets bound my destined head.”

Pitt.

And Dido, beginning to sacrifice, pours wine between the horns of the victim:--

Ipsa tenens dextra pateram pulcherrima Dido,

Candentsi vaccæ media inter cornua fudit.

Æneid iv.

The queen before the snowy heifer stands,

Amid the shrines, a goblet in her hands;

Between the horns she sheds the sacred wine,

And pays due honours to the powers divine.”