spark of life in her sister is not to be confounded, as it has been by the commentators from Serv. downwards, with the custom of receiving in one’s mouth the last breath of a dying person (Cic. Verr. 2. 5. 45, “Matres …. nihil aliud orabant nisi ut filiorum postremum spiritum ore excipere liceret”); but the two things are so far analogous that one may be used to illustrate the other. Meantime he cites a very apposite passage from Ov. M. 12. 424, “Inpositaque manu volnus fovet, oraque ad ora Admovet,