Kitap 11
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There is also the elephant; and this was the name of a kind of cup, as we are told by Damoxenus, in the Man who laments himself— A. If that is not enough, here is the boy Bringing the elephant. B. In God's name tell me, What beast is that? A. 'Tis a mighty cup, Pregnant with double springs of rosy wine, And able to contain three ample measures; The work of Alcon. When I was at Cypseli, Adæus pledged me in this selfsame cup. And Epinicus also mentions this cup, in his Supposititious Damsels; and I will quote his testimony when I come to speak of the rhytum.
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There is another kind of cup called the Ephebus. And Philemon the Athenian, in his treatise on Attic Nouns and Attic Dialects, says that this cup is also called the embasicoitas; but Stephanus the comic poet, in his Friend of the Lacedæmonians, says— Sos. The king then pledged him in a certain village. B. A wondrous thing. What can you mean? Is this A kind of goblet? Sos. No; I mean a village Near Thyria. B. Why, my whole thoughts were borne Off to the Rhodian cups, O Sosia, And to those heavy bowls they call ephebi.
