DRINKING-CUPS. And Simonides too, speaking of a cup with handles, says, [Greek: ouatoenta skyphon]. But Ion, in his Omphale, says—
There is no wine in the cup ([Greek: oinos ouk eni en tô skyphei]),
forming [Greek: skyphei] regularly from [Greek: skyphos], as a neuter noun. And in the same way Epicharmus, in his Cyclops, says—
Come, pour the wine into the cup ([Greek: es to skyphos]).
And Alexis, in his Leucadia, says—
And with his aged lips he drank
A mighty cup ([Greek: mega skyphos]) of fragrant wine.
And Epigenes, in his Bacchea, says—
I rejoiced when I received [Greek: to skyphos].
And Phædimus, in the first book of his Heraclea, says—
A mighty cup ([Greek: eury skyphos]) of well-grain'd timber framed,
And fill'd with honied wine.
And also in Homer, Aristophanes the Byzantian writes—
But having fill'd a cup ([Greek: skyphos]), he gave it him,
Having himself drunk from the same.
But Aristarchus in this line writes [Greek: skyphon], not [Greek: skyphos].
But Asclepiades the Myrlean, in his treatise on the Nestoris, says that none of those who lived in the city, and none of the men of moderate property, used the scyphus ([Greek: tô skyphei]) and the cissybium; but only the swine-herds, and shepherds, and men in the fields, as Eumæus, for instance,
Gave him the cup ([Greek: skyphos]) from which he drank himself,
Well fill'd with wine.
And Alcman says—
And often on the highest mountain tops,
When some most tuneful festival of song
Is held in honour of the Gods, you hold
A golden vessel,—a fine, ample cup ([Greek: skyphon]),
Such as the shepherds, pasturing their flocks
On the high hills, delight in, . . .
. . . have made cheese
Most delicate and white to look upon.
And Æschylus, in his Perrhæbians, says—
Where are my many gifts and warlike spoils,—
Where are my gold and silver cups ([Greek: skyphômata])?
And Stesichorus calls the cup on the board of Pholus the Centaur [Greek: skypheion depas], using [Greek: skypheion] as synonymous to [Greek: skyphoeides]. And he says, when speaking of Hercules—
And taking a huge scyphus-shaped cup ([Greek: skyppheion depas]),
Holding three measures, to his lips he raised it,
