Book 11
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But Heracleon of Ephesus says, The cup which we call ψυγεὺς some name the ψυκτηρία, but the Attic writers make jokes upon the ψυγεὺς, as being a foreign name. Euphorion, in his Woman Restoring, says— But when they call a ψυγεὺς a ψυκτηρίς, And σεύτλιον τεῦλα, and the φακῆ φακεὺς, What can one do? For I rightly said, Give me, I pray, Pyrgothemis, some change For this your language, as for foreign money. And Antiphanes, in his Knights, says— How then are we to live? Our bedclothes are A saddlecloth, and our well-fitting hat Only a psycter. What would you have more? Here is the very Amalthean horn. And in the Carna he declares plainly that, when pouring out wine, they used the psycter for a cyathus. For after he had said— And putting on the board a tripod and cask, And psycter too, he gets drunk on the wine; in the passage following, he represents his man as saying— So will the drink be fiercer: therefore now, If any one should say it is not fit T' indulge in wine at present, just leave out This cask, and this one single drinking-cup, And carry all the rest away at once.
