But there are five phialæ, and two tragelaphi.
And Menander, in his Fisherman, says—
Tragelaphi, labronii.
And Antiphanes, in his Chrysis, says—
And for this rich and sordid bridegroom now,
Who owns so many talents, slaves, and stewards,
And pairs of horses, camels, coverlets,—
Such loads of silver plate, such phialæ,
Triremes, tragelaphi, carchesia,
Milkpails of solid gold, vessels of all sorts;
For all the gluttons and the epicures
Call casks brimful of wine mere simple milkpails.
There is also the trireme. And that trireme is the name of a species of drinking-cup Epicurus has shown, in his Supposititious Damsels; and the passage which is a proof of this has been already quoted.
There is also the hystiacum, which is some sort of drinking-cup. Rhinthon, in his Hercules, says—
DRINKING-CUPS.
You swallow'd, in one small hystiacum,
A cheesecake of pure meal, and groats, and flour.
103. There is the phiale too. Homer, when he says—