Making libations with a golden phiale (χρυσίδἰ),
He gave the serpents drink.
And Hermippus, in his Cercopes, says—
He first completely drain'd an ample cup,
Golden (χρυσίδα) and round, then carried it away.
There was also a kind of cup called the βαλανωτὴ phiale, under the bottom of which were placed golden feet. And Teneus says, that among the offerings at Delos there was a brazen palm-tree, the offering of the Naxians, and some golden phialæ, to which he gives the epithet καρυωταί. But Anaxandrides calls cups of this fashion the phialæ of Mars. But the Æolians call the phiale an aracis.
106. There is also the phthoïs; these are wide-shaped phialæ with bosses. Eupolis says—
He pledged the guests in phthoïdes,
writing the dative plural φθοῖσι; but it ought to have an acute on the last syllable; like καρσὶ, παισὶ, φθειρσί.
There is the philotesia also. This is a kind of κύλιξ, in which they pledged one another out of friendship, as Pamphilus says. And Demosthenes says, "And he pledged him in the philotesia." And Alexis says—
We, in our private and public capacity,
Do pledge you now in this philotesian culix.
But, besides being the name of a cup, a company feasting together was also called φιλοτήσιον. Aristophanes says—