And Ephippus, in his Similitudes, or Obeliaphori, says—
But it were well to learn the plays of Bacchus,
And all the verses which Demophoon
Made upon Cotys; and, at supper-time,
To spout the eclogues of the wise Theorus.
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And let Euripides, that banquet-hunter,
Bring me his cymbia.
And that the κύμβη is the name of a boat too we are shown by Sophocles, who, in his Andromeda, says—
Come you on horseback hither, or in a boat (κύμβαισι)?
And Apollodorus, in his Paphians, says there is a kind of drinking-cup called κύμβα.
65. Then there is the κύπελλον. Now, is this the same as the ἄλεισον and the δέπας, and different from them only in name?
Then rising, all with goblets (κυπέλλοις) in their hands,
The peers and leaders of the Achaian bands
Hail'd their return.
Or was their form different also? For this kind has not the character of the amphicupellum, as the depas and aleison have, but is only of a curved form. For the κύπελλον is so called from its curved shape, as also is the ἀμφικύπελλον. Or is it so called as being in shape like a milk-pail (πέλλα), only contracted a little, so as to have an additional curve? And the word ἀμφικύπελλα is equivalent to ἀμφίκυρτα, being so called from its handles, because they are of a curved shape. For the poet calls this cup—
Golden, two-handled.