Then throw it.
B. How?
A. Look here; throw it like this.
B. O mighty Neptune, what a height he throws it!
A. Now do the same.
B. Not even with a sling
Could I throw such a distance.
A. Well, but learn.
5. For a man must curve his hand excessively before he can throw the cottabus elegantly, as Dicæarchus says; and Plato intimates as much in his Jupiter Ill-treated, where some one calls out to Hercules not to hold his hand too stiff, when he is going to play the cottabus. They also called the very act of throwing the cottabus ἀπ' ἀγκύλης, because they curved (ἀπαγκυλόω) the right hand in throwing it. Though some say that ἀγκύλη, in this phrase, means a kind of cup. And Bacchylides, in his Love Poems, says—
And when she throws ἀπ' ἀγκύλης,