determinative, in the sense of a _probe_. The hand of an Egyptian hero is said to _taste_ his enemy. In the Bremner Papyrus the god _tastes_ Apep four times. The same conception is found in the Homeric poems, ἀλλ’ ἄγε, θᾶσσον γευσόμεθ’ ἀλλήλων χαλκήρσεσιν ἐγχείησιν.[56] though in Greek the _taste_ comes generally to the _patient_ rather than to the agent.