B.In Etruria.
For there were a great many manufactories in Etruria, as the Etrurians were exceedingly fond of works of art. Aristophanes, in his Knights, says—
Binding three long straight darts together,
We use them for a torch (λυχνείῳ).
And Diphilus, in his Ignorance, says—
We lit a candle (λύχνον), and then sought a candlestick (λυχνεῖον).
And Euphorion, in his Historic Commentaries, says that the young Dionysius the tyrant of Sicily dedicated, in the Prytaneum at Tarentum, a candlestick capable of containing as great a number of candles as there are days in a year. And Hermippus the comic poet, in his Iambics, speaks of—
A military candlestick well put together.
And, in his play called The Grooms, he says—
Here, lamp (λυχνίδιον), show me my road on the right hand.