And Ararus, or Eubulus, whichever it was who was the author of the Campylion, says—
O potter's earth, you whom great Thericles
Once fashion'd, widening out the circling depth
Of your large hollow sides; right well must you
Have known the natures and the hearts of women,
That they are not well pleased with scanty cups.
And Alexis, in his Horseman, says—
There is, besides, a thericlean cup,
Having a golden wreath of ivy round it,
Carved on it, not appended.
And in his Little Horse he says—
He drank a thericlean cup of unmix'd wine,
Right full, and foaming o'er the brim.
43. But Timæus, in the twenty-eighth book of his History, calls the cup thericlea, writing thus:—"There was a man of the name of Polyxenus who was appointed one of the ambassadors from Tauromenium, and he returned having received several other presents from Nicodemus, and also a cup of the kind called thericlea." And Adæus, in his treatise on Descriptions, considers that the thericleum and the carchesium are the same. But that they are different is plainly shown by Callixenus, who, in his Account of Alexandria and its customs, says—"And some people marched in the procession, bearing thericlea (and he uses the masculine form θηρικλείους), and others bearing carchesia.” And what kind of cup the carchesium was, shall be explained in due time. There is also another kind called the thericlean bowl (θηρίκλειος κρατὴρ), which is mentioned by Alexis, in his Cycnus—
And in the midst a thericlean bowl
Resplendent stood; full of old clear white wine,
And foaming to the brim. I took it empty,
And wiped it round, and made it shine, and placed it
Firm on its base, and crown'd it round with branches
Of Bacchus' favourite ivy.
Menander also has used the form θηρίκλειος as feminine, in his Fanatic Woman, when he says—
And being moderately drunk, he took
nd drain'd the thericleum (τὴν θηρίκλειον).