Book 11
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But, besides being the name of a cup, a company feasting together was also called φιλοτήσιον. Aristophanes says— Now does the shadow of the descending sun Mark seven feet: 'tis time for supper now, And the philotesian company invites me. But it was from the system of pledging one another at these banquets that the cup got the name of philotesia—as in the Lysistrata— O thou Persuasion, mistress of my soul! And you, O philotesian cup of wine. There are also chonni. Among the Gortynians this is the name given to a species of cup resembling the thericleum, made of brass, which Hermonax says is given by lovers to the objects of their affection.
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There are also Chalcidic goblets, having their name and reputation perhaps from Chalcis in Thrace.
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There are also χυτρίδες; Alexis, in his Supposititious Child, says— I, seeking to do honour to the king, To Ptolemy and to his sister, took Four χυτρίδια of strong, untemper'd wine, And drank them at a draught, with as much pleasure As any one ever swallow'd half-and-half: And, for the sake of this agreement, why Should I not now feast in this splendid light? But Herodotus, in the fifth book of his History, says that the Argives and Aeginetans made a law that no one should ever use any Attic vessel of any kind in their sacrifices, not even if made of earthenware; but that for the future every one should drink out of the χυτρίδες of the country. And Meleager the Cynic, in his Symposium, writes as follows—And in the meantime he proposed a deep pledge to his health, twelve deep χυτρίδια full of wine.
