I.that which is poured out in offerings to the gods, a drinkoffering, libation (poet. for libamentum), Ov. F. 3, 733: “pingui cumulat libamine flammam,” Val. Fl. 1, 204: “setas Ignibus imponit, libamina prima,” the hairs offered as a beginning of the sacrifice, Verg. A. 6, 246.—So (eccl. Lat.) of the Mosaic drinkofferings: “vinum libaminum bibere,” Vulg. Deut. 32, 38; id. 1 Par. 29, 21.—
B. Transf., that which is thrown upon a funeral pile, an offering, Stat. Th. 6, 224.—