Book 11
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There is also the cratanium. But perhaps this is the same cup, under an ancient name, as that which is now called the craneum: accordingly, Polemo (or whoever it is who wrote the treatise on the Manners and Customs of the Greeks), speaking of the temple of the Metapontines which is at Olympia, writes as follows:—The temple of the Metapontines, in which there are a hundred and thirty-two silver phialæ, and two silver wine-jars, and a silver apothystanium, and three gilt phialæ. The temple of the Byzantians, in which there is a figure of Triton, made of cypress-wood, holding a silver cratanium, a silver siren, two silver carchesia, a silver culix, a golden wine-jar, and two horns. But in the old temple of Juno, there are thirty silver phialæ, two silver cratania, a silver dish, a golden apothystanium, a golden crater (the offering of the Cyrenæans), and a silver batiacium.
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There is also the crounea. Epigenes, in his Monument, says— A. Crateres, cadi, holcia, crounea, B. Are these crounea? A. Yes, indeed these are. There is the cyathis also. This is a vessel with a great resemblance to the cotyla. Sophron, in his play entitled the Buffoon, represents the women who profess to exhibit the goddess as present, as saying— Three sovereign antidotes for poison Are buried in a single cyathis.
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Then there is the κύλιξ. Pherecrates, in his Slave Tutor, says— Now wash the κύλιξ out; I'll give you then Some wine to drink: put o'er the cup a strainer, And then pour in some wine.
