And Eubulus, who often mentions this cup by name, in his Pamphilus, says—
But I (for opposite the house there was
A wine-shop recently establish'd)
There watch'd the damsel's nurse; and bade the vintner
Mix me a measure of wine worth an obol,
And set before me a full-sized cantharus.
And in another place he says—
How dry and empty is this cantharus!
And again, in another place—
Soon as she took it, she did drink it up,—
How much d'ye think? a most enormous draught;
And drain'd the cantharus completely dry.
DRINKING-CUPS.
And Xenarchus, in his Priapus, says this—
Pour, boy, no longer in the silver tankard,
But let us have again recourse to the deep.
Pour, boy, I bid you, in the cantharus,
Pour quick, by Jove, aye, by the Cantharus,[62] pour.
And Epigenes, in his Heroine, says—