Commentary for Zevachim 221:2
רבינא אמר בלמדין ניסוך המים מניסוך היין פליגי
Rabina said: They disagree as to whether we learn water libation from wine libation.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' They agree that libations were offered in the wilderness; therefore the text must refer to private bamoth, where unsanctified wine was used. But this was only in the case of wine; water libations, however, were offered only at the public bamoth, and the water was first sanctified. The first Tanna holds that we learn water libation from wine libation: as liability is incurred for offering a libation without even of unsanctified wine, so is it incurred for water not specially drawn. R. Eleazar rejects this analogy and maintains that since only sanctified water was used in libations, liability is incurred only for same.');"><sup>2</sup></span>
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