And in his Begging Priest he says—
Drinking a thericleum of three pints.
And Dioxippus, in his Miser, says—
A. I want now the large thericlean cup (τῆς θηρικλείου τῆς μεγάλης).
B. I know it well.
A. Likewise the Rhodian cups;
For when I've pour'd the liquor into them,
I always seem to drink it with most pleasure.
And Polemo, in the first book of his treatise on the Acropolis at Athens, has used the word in the neuter gender, saying— "Neoptolemus offered up some golden thericlean cups (τὰ θηρίκλεια) wrought on foundations of wood."
44. And Apollodorus of Gela, in his Philadelphia or the Man who killed himself by Starvation, says—
Then there were robes of fine embroidery,
And silver plate, and very skilful chasers
Who ornament the thericlean cups,
And many other noble bowls besides.
And Aristophon, in his Philonides, says—
DRINKING-CUPS.
Therefore my master very lately took
The well-turn'd orb of a thericlean cup,
Full foaming to the brim with luscious wine,
Mix'd half-and-half, a most luxurious draught,
And gave it me as a reward for virtue;
I think because of my tried honesty;
And then, by steeping me completely in it,
He set me free.