Kitap 11
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There is the plemochoe, too. This is an earthenware vessel, shaped like a top, not very steady; and some people call it the cotyliscus, as Pamphilus tells us. But they use it at Eleusis on the last day of the Mysteries, which day they call Plemochoai, from the cups. And on this day they fill two plemochoæ, and place one looking towards the east, and the other looking towards the west, saying over them a mystic form of words; and the author of the Pirithous names them (whoever he was, whether Critias the tyrant, or Euripides), saying,— That with well-omen'd words we now may pour These plemochoæ into the gulf below.
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There is a vessel, too, called the pristis; and that this is a species of cup has been already stated in the discussion on the batiacium.
