Book 11
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There is also the καδίσκος Philemon, in his treatise before mentioned, says that this too is a species of cup. And it is a vessel in which they place the Ctesian Jupiters, as Anticlides says, in his Book on Omens, where he writes,— The statuettes of Jupiter Ctesius ought to be erected in this manner. One ought to place a new cadiscus with two ears . . .—and crown the ears with white wool; and on the right shoulder, and on the forehead . . . . and put on it what you find there, and pour ambrosia over it. But ambrosia is compounded of pure water, and oil, and all kinds of fruits; and these you must pour over. Stratis the comic poet also mentions the cadiscus, in his Lemnomeda, where he says— The wine of Mercury, which some draw forth From a large jug, and some from a cadiscus, Mix'd with pure water, half-and-half.
