Kitap 11
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There is also the manes, which is a species of cup. Nicon, in his Harp-player, says— And some seasonably then exclaim'd, My fellow-countryman, I drink to you; And in his hand he held an earthenware manes, Of ample size, well able to contain Five cotylæ of wine; and I received it. And both Didymus and Pamphilus have quoted these iambics. But that is also called manes which stands upon the cottabus, on which they throw the drops of wine in that game, which Sophocles, in his Salmoneus, called the brazen head, saying— This is a contest, and a noise of kisses; I give a prize to him who gains the victory In elegantly throwing the cottabus, And striking with just aim the brazen head. And Antiphanes, in his Birthday of Venus, says— A. I then will show you how: whoever throws The cottabus direct against the scale (πλώστιγξ,) So as to make it fall— B. What scale? Do you Mean this small dish which here is placed above? A. That is the scale-he is the conqueror. B. How shall a man know this? A. Why, if he throw So as to reach it barely, it will fall Upon the manes,The manes was a small brazen figure. and there'll be great noise. B. Does manes, then, watch o'er the cottabus, As if he were a slave? And Hermippus says in his Fates— You'll see, says he, a cottabus rod. Wallowing round among the chaff; But the manes hears no drops,— And you the wretched scale may see Lying by the garden gate, And thrown away among the rubbish.
