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There is also a kind of cup called baucalis: and this, too, is chiefly used in Alexandria, as Sopater the parodist says— A baucalis, with four rings mark'd on it. And in another passage he says— 'Tis sweet for men to drink (καταβαυκαλίσαι) Cups of the juice by bees afforded, At early dawn, when parch'd by thirst, Caused by too much wine overnight. And the men in Alexandria, it is said, have a way of working crystal, forming it often into various shapes of goblets, and imitating in this material every sort of earthenware cup which is imported from any possible country. And they say that Lysippus the statuary, wishing to gratify Cassander, when he was founding the colony of Cassandria, and when he conceived the ambition of inventing some peculiar kind of utensil in earthenware, on account of the extraordinary quantity of Mendean wine which was exported from the city, took a great deal of pains with that study, and brought Cassander a great number of cups of every imaginable fashion, all made of earthenware, and taking a part of the pattern of each, thus made one goblet of a design of his own.
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There is also a kind of cup called bicus. Xenophon, in the first book of his Anabasis, says:—"And Cyrus sent him a number of goblets (βίκους) of wine half full; and it is a cup of a flat shallow shape, like a φιάλη, according to the description given of it by Pollux the Parian.
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There is another kind of cup called the bombylius; a sort of Rhodian Thericlean cup; concerning the shape of which Socrates says,—Those who drink out of the phiale as much as they please will very soon give over; but those who drink out of a bombylius drink by small drops. There is also an animal of the same name.
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There is also a kind of drinking-cup called the bromias, in form like the larger kind of scyphus.
