Talk:Libation

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[edit] 2Pac?

In his work "Pour Out a Little Liquor", Tupac asks that, when we drink, we pour out some liquor for his dead homies.

Is this gesture actually a form of libation, or is the similarity coincidental?

--18.252.6.136 22:00, 4 July 2006 (UTC)


[edit] The Thirsty Dead?

"Ancient Greek texts often mention libations. ... This act also known as Laudator Temporis Acti = the thirsty dead."

It should be obvious to anyone with even the tiniest smattering of classical languages (which is all I would claim) that Laudator Temporis Acti does not mean "the thirsty dead" in Latin, still less in Greek. Nor is it the name, in either language, for the act of pouring a libation. Whoever wrote that seems to have visited http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2004/10/thirsty-dead.html and mistaken the title of the day's essay for a translation of the title of the blog as a whole. I'm removing the erroneous sentence, and cleaning up the grammar of the previous one, which asserts that shades in Hades are composed of barley, wine, honey and water.

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