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There is also the ciborium. Hegesander the Delphian says that Euphorion the poet, when supping with the Prytanis, when the Prytanis exhibited to him some ciboria, which appeared to be made in a most exquisite and costly manner, . . . . . . . . And when the cup had gone round pretty often, he, having drunk very hard and being intoxicated, took one of the ciboria and defiled it. And Didymus says that it is a kind of drinking-cup; and perhaps it may be the same as that which is called scyphium, which derives its name from being contracted to a narrow space at the bottom, like the Egyptian ciboria.
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There is also the condu, an Asiatic cup. (Menander, in his play entitled the Flatterer, says— Then, too, there is in Cappadocia, O Struthion, a noble golden cup, Called condu, holding ten full cotyle. And Hipparchus says, in his Men Saved,— A. Why do you so attend to this one soldier? He has no silver anywhere, I know well; But at the most one small embroider'd carpet, (And that is quite enough for him,) on which Some Persian figures and preposterous shapes Of Persian griffins, and such beasts, are work'd. B Away with you, you wretch. A. And then he has A condu, a wine-cooler, and a cymbium. And Nicomachus, in the first book of his treatise on the Egyptian Festivals, says—But the condu is a Persian cup; and it was first introduced by Hermippus the astrologer.This quotation from Nicomachus is hopelessly corrupt.. . . . . . . . . . . . on which account libations are poured out of it. But Pancrates, in the first book of his Conchoreis, says— But he first pour'd libations to the gods From a large silver condu; then he rose, And straight departed by another road.
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There is also the cononius. Ister, the pupil of Callimachus, in the first book of his History of Ptolemais, the city in Egypt, writes thus:—"A pair of cups, called cononii, and a pair of therielean cups with golden covers.
