[183] Perpetui tergo bovis is the Homeric νῶτα διηνεκῆ, Il. 7. 321, Od. 14. 437, where Ajax and Ulysses receive the whole chine as a portion of honour. Heyne. For ‘perpetuus,’ undivided and hence whole, comp. 7. 176. ‘Lustralibus’ can scarcely mean more than sacrificial, as there seems no notion of purification here. The idea is probably taken from the σπλάγχνα πάσαντο of the Homeric sacrifices; but there it appears to be a ceremony of itself, quite separate from the sacrificial banquet.
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