Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.

Spice it well - that the meat may be the more palatable; i:e., I will make the foe delight in its destruction as much as one delights in well-seasoned savoury meat. Grotius, needlessly departing from the obvious sense, translates, 'let it be boiled down to a compound.'

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