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But some people say that this is rather the name of the draught itself which was given to the guests after they had washed their hands; as, for instance, Seleucus says in his Dialects. But Callias, in his Cyclops, says— Receive this metaniptris of Hygeia. And Philetærus, in his Aesculapius, says— He raised aloft a mighty metaniptris, Brimfull of wine, in equal portions mix'd, Repeating all the tine Hygeia's name. And Philoxenus the Dithyrambic poet, in his ode entitled the Supper, pledging some one after they have washed their hands, says— Do you, my friend, receive This metaniptris full of wine, The sweetly dewy gift of Bacchus. Bromius gives this placid joy, To lead all men to happiness. And Antiphanes, in his Torch, says— Our table shall now be this barley cake, And then this metaniptrum of Good Fortune . . . . . Nicostratus, in his Woman returning Love, says— Pour over him the metaniptrum of health.
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Then there is the mastus. Apollodorus the Cyrenæan, as Pamphilus says, states that this is a name given to drinking-cups by the Paphians.
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There are also the mathalides. Blæsus, in his Saturn, says— Pour out for us now seven mathalides Full of sweet wine. And Pamphilus says, Perhaps this is a kind of cup, or is it only a measure like the cyathus But Diodorus calls it a cup of the κύλιξ class.
