Book 11
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There is also a kind of cup called aryballus. This kind of cup is wider at the bottom, and contracted at to like a purse when it is drawn together; and, indeed, some people call purses ἀρύβαλλοι, from their resemblance to this kind of cup. Aristophanes says, in his Knights— He pour'd upon his head Ambrosia from a holy cup (ἀρύβαλλος). And the aryballus is not very different from the arystichus, being derived from the verbs ἀρύτω and βάλλω; they also call a jug ἄρυστις. Sophocles says— You are most accursed of all women, Who come to supper with your ἀρύστεις. There is also a city of the Ionians called arystis.
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There is another kind of cup called argyris, which is not necessarily made of silver. Anaxilas says— And drinking out of golden argyrides.
