History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 1 (of 2)

by H. B. Walters; Samuel Birch

[654]. Cf. B.M. B 77, 78; J.H.S. xiii. p. 78.

[655]. xi. 784 D.

[656]. See id. xi. 477 E.

[657]. The word also occurs in Horace (Od. ii. 7, 22) for a large wine-cup.

[658]. E.g. B.M. B 370, 371, 681.

[659]. Robert, Homerische Becker, p. 3.

[660]. xi. 481 D.

[661]. xi. 782 F, 500 F.

[662]. Cf. Macrob. v. 21: pocula procera ac navibus similia. In illustration of the resemblance of a bowl to a ship we may cite the story of the wise men of Gotham, also the golden bowl of the Sun (p. [181]), and the form of the Welsh coracle.

[663]. F 596.