The property owners and their families met at the boundary stone (terminus), and each decorated his side of it with garlands. They built an altar and offered grain, wine, and honeycombs in the fire. Members of the families, dressed in white, remained silent while the blood of a lamb or a suckling pig was sprinkled on the stone. Afterward, there was a feast, and songs of praise were sung to honor Terminus. The ceremony was a reflection of the ritual by which the boundary stone had been set in place originally. Together with fruits of the earth, wine, and honeycombs, the blood and ashes of a sacrificial victim had been placed in a hole by the land owners and covered with a stone or a stump of wood.