B. A mighty game! This is a greater contest
Than e'en the Isthmian festival can furnish.
4. There was a kind of cottabus also which they used to call κάτακτος, that is, when lamps are lifted up and then let down again. Eubulus, in his Bellerophon, says—
Who now will take hold of my leg below?
For I am lifted up like a κοτταβεῖον.
THE COTTABUS.
And Antiphanes, in his Birthday of Venus, says—
A. This now is what I mean; don't you perceive
This lamp's the cottabus: attend awhile;
The eggs, and sweetmeats, and confectionery