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There are also rheonta; for this was a name given to some cups: and Astydamas mentions them in his Mercury, speaking thus:— First of all were two silver craters large, And fifty phialæ, and ten cymbia, And twelve rheonta, two of which were gold, The others silver;-of the gold ones, one Was like a griffin, one like Pegasus.
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There is also the rhysis. This is called a golden phiala by Theodorus; and Cratinus, in his Laws, says—Pouring a libation from a rhysis.
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There is also the Rhodias. Diphilus, in his Stormer of Walls (but Callimachus calls the play The Eunuch), speaks thus— And they intend to drink more plenteously Than rhodiaca or rhyta can supply. Dioxippus, too, mentions this cup, in his Miser; and so does Aristotle, in his treatise on Drunkenness; and so also does Lynceus the Samian, in his Letters.
