And no one gave me even one ἀρυστὴρ
Of the mere dregs and lees.
And Aristophanes, in his Wasps, says—
For I had these ἀρύστιχοι near me.
And Phrynichus, in his Weeding Women, says—
(A cup) κύλικ᾽ ἀρύστιχον:
and from this comes the word ἀρύταινα. They also called this vessel ἔφηβος, as Xenophanes did in his Relationship; and Polybius, in the ninth book of his Histories, says that there is a certain river called the Cyathus, near Arsinoe, a city in Ætolia.
24. But the word ἀκρατέστερον, meaning the same as ζωρότερον, is used by Hyperides in his oration against Demosthenes; where he writes thus—“If any one drank any wine of much strength (ἀκρατέστερον), it grieved you.” And a similar form is ἀνιαρέστερον, and also the expression in the Heliades of Æschylus—
ἀφθονέστερον λίβα.
And Epicharmus, in his Pyrrha, has the word εὐωνέστερον (cheaper); and Hyperides, in his Oration against Demades, has used the expression—
ῥαδιεστέραν τὴν πόλιν.