Our table shall now be this barley-cake,
And then this metaniptrum of Good Fortune . . . . .
Nicostratus, in his Woman returning Love, says—
Pour over him the metaniptrum of health.
74. Then there is the mastus. Apollodorus the Cyrenæan, as Pamphilus says, states that this is a name given to drinking-cups by the Paphians.
There are also the mathalides. Blæsus, in his Saturn, says—
Pour out for us now seven mathalides
Full of sweet wine.
And Pamphilus says, “Perhaps this is a kind of cup, or is it only a measure like the cyathus” But Diodorus calls it a cup of the κύλιξ class.
75. There is also the manes, which is a species of cup. Nicon, in his Harp-player, says—
And some seasonably then exclaim'd,
My fellow-countryman, I drink to you;
And in his hand he held an earthenware manes,
Of ample size, well able to contain
Five cotylæ of wine; and I received it.
And both Didymus and Pamphilus have quoted these iambics. But that is also called manes which stands upon the cottabus, on which they throw the drops of wine in that game, which Sophocles, in his Salmoneus, called the brazen head, saying—