by various authors, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities… (1890)
“ A trench being dug, a victim was sacrificed: the blood was poured into the trench while the ministrants were veiled (which speaks for the antiquity of the rite and its Roman character; cf. Sacrificium p. 586 a) : the body of the victim, along with corn, fruits, incense, honey and wine, was cast into the trench and the whole consumed by blazing pine-brands: the boundary-stone was set upon the bed of ashes (Sic. Flacc. p. 141, 8) . ”
