Thou shalt this day drink (πίει) the most bitter wine;
though this might, perhaps, come from πιοῦμαι. Sometimes, however, they shorten the ι, as Plato does, in his Women Returning from Sacrifice—
Nor he who drinks up (ἐκπίεται) all her property:
and in his Syrphax he says—
And ye shall drink (πίεσθε) much water.
And Menander uses the word πῖε as a dissyllable, in his Dagger—
A. Drink (πῖε).
B. I will compel this wretch,
This sacrilegious wretch, to drink (πιεῖν) it first:
and the expression τῆ πίε, take and drink, and πῖνε, drink. So do you, my friend, drink; and as Alexis says, in his Twins,—
Pledge you (πρόπιθι) this man, that he may pledge another.
And let it be a cup of comradeship, which Anaceron calls ἐπίστιος. For that great lyric poet says—