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 He bade the heralds bear to them a bladder Fill'd with dark wine, and the most choice of all, The celebea in his house which lay, Fill'd with pure honey.

And in a subsequent passage he says—

But taking up a mighty celebeum In both his hands, well fill'd with richest honey, Which in great store he had most excellent.

And again he says—

And golden cups of wine, and then besides, A celebeum yet untouch'd by man, Full of pure honey, his most choice of treasures.

And in this passage he very evidently speaks of the celebeum as some kind of vessel distinct from a drinking-cup, since he has already mentioned drinking-cups under the title of [Greek: depastra]. And Theocritus the Syracusan, in his Female Witches, says—

And crown this celebeum with the wool, Well dyed in scarlet, of the fleecy sheep.

And Euphorion says—

Or whether you from any other stream Have fill'd your celebe with limpid water.

And Anacreon says—

And the attendant pour'd forth luscious wine, Holding a celebe of goodly size.

But Dionysius, surnamed the Slender, explaining the poem of Theodoridas, which is addressed to Love, says that celebe is a name given to a kind of upstanding cup, something like the prusias and the thericleum.

51. There is also the horn. It is said that the first men drank out of the horns of oxen; from which circumstance Bacchus often figured with horns on his head, and is moreover called a bull by many of the poets. And at Cyzicus there is a statue of him with a bull's head. But that men drank out of horns ([Greek: kerata]) is plain from the fact that to this very day, when men mix water with wine, they say that they [Greek: kerasai] (mix it). And the vessel in which the wine is mixed is called [Greek: kratêr], from the fact of the water being mingled ([Greek: synkirnasthai]) in it, as if the word were [Greek: keratêr], from the drink being poured [Greek: eis to keras] (into the horn); and even to this day the fashion of making horns into cups continues: but some people call these cups rhyta. And many