The ancient practice of concluding the entertainment with libations may be found in every classic. Socrates and Seneca, in their last moments, made a noble application of this custom.
Postremo stagnum calidae aquae introiit,
respergens proximos servorum, addita voce, libare se
liquorem illum Jovi Liberatori.
—Tacitus, The Annals, xv. 64.