DRINKING-CUPS.
Here, you sir; where are you now carrying
That silver phiale ([Greek: tên argyrida têndi])?
And Cratinus mentions the golden one in his Laws—
Making libations with a golden phiale ([Greek: chrysidi]),
He gave the serpents drink.
And Hermippus, in his Cercopes, says—
He first completely drain'd an ample cup,
Golden ([Greek: chrysida]) and round, then carried it away.
There was also a kind of cup called the [Greek: balanôtê] phiale, under the bottom of which were placed golden feet. And Teneus says, that among the offerings at Delos there was a brazen palm-tree, the offering of the Naxians, and some golden phialæ, to which he gives the epithet [Greek: karyôtai]. But Anaxandrides calls cups of this fashion the phialæ of Mars. But the Æolians call the phiale an aracis.
106. There is also the phthoïs; these are wide-shaped phialæ with bosses. Eupolis says—
He pledged the guests in phthoïdes,
writing the dative plural [Greek: phthoisi]; but it ought to have an acute· on the last syllable; like [Greek: Karsi], [Greek: paisi], [Greek: phtheirsi].
There is the philotesia also. This is a kind of [Greek: kylix], in which they pledged one another out of friendship, as Pamphilus says. And Demosthenes says, "And he pledged him in the philotesia." And Alexis says—
We, in our private and public capacity,
Do pledge you now in this philotesian culix.
But, besides being the name of a cup, a company feasting together was also called [Greek: philotêsion]. Aristophanes says—
Now does the shadow of the descending sun
Mark seven feet: 'tis time for supper now,
And the philotesian company invites me.
But it was from the system of pledging one another at these banquets that the cup got the name of philotesia—as in the Lysistrata—
O thou Persuasion, mistress of my soul!
And you, O philotesian cup of wine.
There are also chonni. Among the Gortynians this is the name given to a species of cup resembling the thericleum, made of brass, which Hermonax says is given by lovers to the objects of their affection.
There are also Chalcidic goblets, having their name and reputation perhaps from Chalcis in Thrace.
