Kitap 11
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But Asclepiades the Myrlean, in his treatise on the Nestoris, says that none of those who lived in the city, and none of the men of moderate property, used the scyphus τῷ σκύφει and the cissybium; but only the swine-herds, and shepherds, and men in the fields, as Eumæus, for instance, Gave him the cup ʽσ̔κύφοσ̓ from which he drank himself, Well filled with wine. And Alæman says— And often on the highest mountain tops, When some most tuneful festival of song Is held in honour of the Gods, you hold A golden vessel,—a fine, ample cup ʽσ̔κύφον̓, Such as the shepherds, pasturing their flocks On the high hills, delight in, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . have made cheese Most delicate and white to look upon. And Aeschylus, in his Perrhæbians, says— Where are my many gifts and warlike spoils,— Where are my gold and silver cups ʽσ̔κυφώματἀ? And Stesichorus cans the cup on the board of Pholus the Centaur σκύφειον δέπας, using σκύφειον as synonymous to σκυφοειδές.. And he says, when speaking of Hercules– And taking a huge scyphus-shaped cup ʽσ̔κύπφειον δέπασ̓, Holding three measures, to his lips he raised it, Full of rich wine, which Pholus wisely mix'd And gave him; and at one good draught he drank it. And Archippus, in his Amphitryon, has used the word in the neuter gender.
