And Theophilus, in his Boeotia, says—
He mixes beautifully a large cup
Of earthenware, of thericlean fashion,
Holding four pints, and foaming o'er the brim;
Not Autocles himself, by earth I swear,
Could in his hand more gracefully have borne it.
And, in his Proetides, he says—
And bring a thericlean cup, which holds
More than four pints, and 's sacred to good fortune.
There is also a cup called the Isthmian cup: and Pamphilus, in his treatise on Names, says that this is a name given to a certain kind of cup by the inhabitants of Cyprus.
45. There is also a kind of vessel called cadus; which Simmias states to be a kind of cup, quoting this verse of Anacreon—
I breakfasted on one small piece of cheesecake,
And drank a cadus full of wine.
And Epigenes, in his Little Monument, says—
A. Craters, and cadi, olkia, and crunea.
B. Are these crunea?
A. To be sure these are,
Luteria, too. But why need I name each?
For you yourself shall see them.
B. Do you say
That the great monarch's son, Pixodarus,
Has come to this our land?
And Hedylus, in his Epigrams, says—