Book 11
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But Dionysius the pupil of Tryphon, in his treatise on Names, says—The ancients used to call the psygeus dinus. But Nicander of Thyatira says, that woods and shady places dedicated to the gods are also called ψυκτῆρες, as being places where one may cool oneself (ἀναψύξαι). Aeschylus, in his Young Men, says— And gentle airs, in the cool, shady places (ψυκτηρίυις); and Euripides, in his Phaethon, says— The trees, affording a cool shade (ψυκτήρια), Shall now embrace him in their loving arms; and the author of the poem called Aegimius, whether it really was Hesiod, or only Cecrops of Miletus, says— There shall my cool shade (ψυκτήριον) be, O king of men.
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There is also the oidos. This was the name of a drinking-cup, as we are told by Tryphon, in his Onomasticon; a cup given to him who sang the scolia—as Antiphanes shows in his Doubles— A. What will there be, then, for the gods B. Why, nothing, Unless now some one mixes wine for them. A. Stop; take this ᾠδὸς, and abandon all Those other worn-out fashions; sing no more Of Telamon, or Pæon, or Harmodius. There are also the ooscyphia. Now respecting the shape of these cups, Asclepiades the Myrlean, in his Essay on the Nestoris, says that it has two bottoms, one of them wrought on to the bowl of the cup, and of the same piece with it; but the other attached to it, beginning with a sharp point, and ending in a broad bottom, on which the cup stands.
