DRINKING-CUPS.
And gave it me as a reward for virtue;
I think because of my tried honesty;
And then, by steeping me completely in it,
He set me free.
And Theophilus, in his Bœotia, says—
He mixes beautifully a large cup
Of earthenware, of thericlean fashion,
Holding four pints, and foaming o'er the brim;
Not Autocles himself, by earth I swear,
Could in his hand more gracefully have borne it.
And, in his Prœtides, he says—
And bring a thericlean cup, which holds
More than four pints, and 's sacred to good fortune.
There is also a cup called the Isthmian cup: and Pamphilus, in his treatise on Names, says that this is a name given to a certain kind of cup by the inhabitants of Cyprus.
45. There is also a kind of vessel called cadus; which Simmias states to be a kind of cup, quoting this verse of Anacreon—
I breakfasted on one small piece of cheesecake,
And drank a cadus full of wine.
And Epigenes, in his Little Monument, says—
A. Craters, and cadi, olkia, and crunea.
B. Are these crunea?
A. To be sure these are,
Luteria, too. But why need I name each?
For you yourself shall see them.
B. Do you say
That the great monarch's son, Pixodarus,
Has come to this our land?
And Hedylus, in his Epigrams, says—
Let us then drink; perhaps among our cups
We may on some new wise and merry plan
With all good fortune light. Come, soak me well
In cups ([Greek: kadois]) of Chian wine, and say to me,
"Come, sport and drink, good Hedylus;" I hate
To live an empty life, debarr'd from wine.
And in another place he says—
From morn till night, and then from night till morn,
The thirsty Pasisocles sits and drinks,
In monstrous goblets ([Greek: kadois]), holding quite four quarts,
And then departs whatever way he pleases.
But midst his cups he sports more mirthfully,
And is much stronger than Sicelides.
How his wit sparkles! Follow his example,
And ever as you write, my friend, drink too.
