DRINKING-CUPS. Chian [Greek: kylikes] also are highly extolled, which Hermippus mentions in his Soldiers—
And a Chian [Greek: kylix] hung on a peg aloft.
But Glaucon, in his Dialects, says that the inhabitants of Cyprus call the cotyle culix. And Hipponax, in his Synonymes, writes thus—"The aleisum, the poterium, the cupellum, the amphotis, the scyphus, the culix, the cothon, the carchesium, the phiale." And Achæus of Eretria, in his Alcmæon, instead of [Greek: kylikes], has lengthened the word, and written [Greek: kylichnides], in these lines—
But it is best to bring, as soon as possible,
Dark wine, and one large common bowl for all,
And some [Greek: kylichnides] besides.
And Alcæus says—
Let us at once sit down and drink our wine,
Why do we wait for lights? Our day is but
A finger's span. Bring forth large goblets ([Greek: kylichnai]) now
Of various sorts. For the kind liberal son
Of Jove and Semele gave rosy wine,
Which bids us all forget our griefs and cares;
So pour it forth, and mix in due proportion.
And in his tenth Ode he says—
Drops of wine ([Greek: latages]) fly from Teian culichnæ,
showing, by this expression, that the [Greek: kylikes] of Teos were exceedingly beautiful.
62. Pherecrates also says, in his Corianno—
A. For I am coming almost boil'd away
From the hot bath; my throat is parch'd and dry;
Give me some wine. I vow my mouth and all
My jaws are sticky with the heat.
B. Shall I
Then take the [Greek: kyliskê], O damsel, now?
A. By no means, 'tis so small; and all my bile
Has been stirr'd up since I did drink from it,
Not long ago, some medicine. Take this cup
Of mine, 'tis larger, and fill that for me.
And that the women were in the habit of using large cups, Pherecrates himself expressly tells us in his Tyranny, where he says—
And then they bade the potter to prepare
Some goblets for the men, of broader shape,
Having no walls, but only a foundation,
And scarcely holding more than a mere shell.
More like to tasting cups; but for themselves
