ead differently:
"le rituel romain prescrivit generalement l'usage du
voile, signe de separation et partant de consecration"
(p. 28). Miss Harrison, _Prolegomena to_ _the Study of
Greek Religion_, p. 522, also holds that it is the
outward sign of consecration; cp. S. Reinach, _Cultes,
mythes, et religions_, i. 300 foll. The fact, noted by
Miss Harrison, that in Festus's account of the _ver
sacrum_ (p. 379, ed. Mueller) the children expelled were
veiled, seems to point to the idea of
dedication--unless, indeed, _velabant_ here means that
they blindfolded them.

[375] The wine was poured over the altar as well as on
the victim, which suggests a substitution for blood;
Arnobius vii. 29 and 30; Dion. Hal. vii. 72. I cannot
find that any one of the many utensils used in sacrifice
were for pouring out blood. Blood was, however, poured
on the stone at the Terminalia (_R.F._ pp. 325-326); but
the rite here described by Ovid seems to be a rural one,
outside the _ius divinum_. In the sacrifice of victims
to Hecate in Virg. _Aen._ vi. 243 foll., which cannot be
_ritus Romanus_, the warm blood is collected in
_paterae_; but nothing is said of what was done with it,
nor does Servius help. Cp. _Aen._ viii. 106. In
Lucretius v. 1202, "aras sanguine multo spargere
quadrupedum," the context shows that the ritual alluded
to is not old Roman. In Livy's description of the
"occulti paratus sacri" of the Samnites (ix. 41), we
find "_respersae fando nefandoque sanguine arae_, et
dira exsecratio ac furiale carmen." Livy seems to think
of this blood-sprinkling, whether the blood be human or
animal, as unusual and horrible. Ancient, no doubt, is
the practice, recorded in the _Acta Fratr. Arv._ (see
Henzen, pp. 21 and 23), of using the blood in a
religious feast, in the process of cooking: "porcilias
piaculares epulati sunt et sanguem." (There is a mention
of the pouring of blood in an inscription from Lusitania
in _C.I.L._ ii. 2395.) For the use of wine as a
substitute for blood, see the recently published work of
Karl Kircher, "Die sakrale Bedeuting des Weines," in
_Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche, etc._, p. 82 foll.,
where, however, the subject is not worked out.

[376] According to Luebbert (_Commentarii pontificales_,
p. 121 foll.) _magmentum_ is the same as _augm