[517] The end of the sacrifice and feast was the burning of the tongues of the victims, over which they poured a libation; cf. Od. 3. 341, γλώσσας δ᾽ ἐν πυρὶ βάλλον ἀνιστάμενυι δ᾽ ἐπέλειβον. Probably ἑστηῶτες is the right reading. It, and not the Homeric ἑσταότες, is the form Ap. always uses. The corruption would be caused by the fact that Ap. uses both ἣ θέμις and ἣ θεμις ἐστι.
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Argonautica. Apollonius Rhodius. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912.
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