And Dioxippus, in his Miser, says—
And from Olympicus he then received
Six thericlean cups, and then two psycters.
And Menander, in his play entitled The Brazier's Shop, says—
And, as the present fashion is, they shouted
For more untemper'd wine; and some one took
A mighty psycter, giving them to drink,
And so destroy'd them wretchedly.
And Epigenes, in his Heroine, giving a list of many cups, among them mentions the psygeus thus—
Now take the boys, and make them hither bring
The thericlean and the Rhodian cups;
But bring yourself the psycter and the cyathus,
Some cymbia too.
And Strattis, in his Psychastæ—
DRINKING-CUPS.
And one man having stolen a psycter,
And his companion, who has taken away
A brazen cyathus, both lie perplex'd,
Looking for a chœnix and a cotylis.
But Alexis, in his Hippiscus, uses the diminutive form, and calls it a ψυκτηρίδιον, saying—