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And Xenarchus, in his Priapus, says this—

Pour, boy, no longer in the silver tankard, But let us have again recourse to the deep. Pour, boy, I bid you, in the cantharus, Pour quick, by Jove, aye, by the Cantharus, pour.

And Epigenes, in his Heroine, says—

But now they do no longer canthari make, At least not large ones; but small shallow cups Are come in fashion, and they call them neater, As if they drank the cups, and not the wine.

48. And Sosicrates, in his Philadelphi, says—

A gentle breeze mocking the curling waves, Sciron's fair daughter, gently on its course Brought with a noiseless foot the cantharus;

where cantharus evidently means a boat.

And Phrynichus, in his Revellers, says—

And then Chærestratus, in his own abode, Working with modest zeal, did weep each day A hundred canthari well fill'd with wine.

And Nicostratus, in his Calumniator, says—

A. Is it a ship of twenty banks of oars, Or a swan, or a cantharus? For when I have learnt that, I then shall be prepared Myself t' encounter everything. B. It is    A cycnocantharus, an animal Compounded carefully of each.

And Menander, in his Captain of a Ship, says—

A. Leaving the salt depths of the Ægean sea, Theophilus has come to us, O Strato. How seasonably now do I say your son Is in a prosperous and good condition, And so's that golden cantharus. B. What cantharus? A. Your vessel.

And a few lines afterwards he says—

B. You say my ship is safe? A. Indeed I do, That gallant ship which Callicles did build, And which the Thurian Euphranor steer'd.

And Polemo, in his treatise on Painters, addressed to Antigonus, says—"At Athens, at the marriage of Pirithous,