And Alexis, in his Agonis, or The Colt, says—
This third man has a κυλιστὸς garland
Of fig-leaves; but while living he delighted
In similar ornaments:
and in his Sciron he says—
Like a κυλιστὸς garland in suspense.
Antiphanes also mentions it in his Man in Love with Himself. And Eubulus, in his Œnomaus, or Pelops, saying—
Brought into circular shape,
Like a κυλιστὸς garland.
What, then, is this κυλιστός? For I am aware that Nicander of Thyatira, in his Attic Nouns, speaks as follows,—"Ἐκκυλίσιοι στέφανοι, and especially those made of roses." And now I ask what species of garland this was, O Cynulcus; and do not tell me that I am to understand the word as meaning merely large. For you are a man who are fond of not only picking things little known out of books, but of even digging out such matters; like the philosophers in the Joint Deceiver of Baton the comic poet; men whom Sophocles also mentions in his Fellow Feasters, and who resemble you,—