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 [Greek: haima]—meaning, blood in such quantities that it could be taken up in the hand. And there was a game called [Greek: enkotylê], in which those who are defeated make their hands hollow, and then take hold of the knees of those who have won the game and carry them." And Diodorus, in his Italian Dialects, and Heraclitus (as Pamphilus says), relate that the cotyla is also called hemina, quoting the following passage of Epicharmus:—

And then to drink a double measure, Two heminæ of tepid water full.

And Sophron says—

Turn up the hemina, O boy.

But Pherecrates calls it a cotylisca, in his Corianno, saying—

The cotylisca? By no means.

And Aristophanes, in his Acharnians, uses a still more diminutive form, and says—

A cotyliscium ([Greek: kotyliskion]) with a broken lip.

And even the hollow of the hip is called [Greek: kotylê]; and the excrescences on the feelers of the polypus are, by a slight extension of the word, called [Greek: kotylêdôn]. And Æschylus, in his Edonians, has called cymbals also [Greek: kotylai], saying—

And he makes music with his brazen [Greek: kotylai].

But Marsyas says that the bone of the hip is also called [Greek: aleison] and [Greek: kylix]. And the sacred bowl of Bacchus is called [Greek: kotyliskos], and so are those goblets which the initiated use for their libations; as Nicander of Thyatira says, adducing the following passage from the Clouds of Aristophanes:—

Nor will I crown the cotyliscus.

And Simmias interprets the word [Greek: kotylê] by [Greek: aleison].

58. There is also the cottabis. Harmodius of Lepreum, in his treatise on the Laws and Customs of Phigalea, going through the entertainments peculiar to different countries, writes as follows:—"When they have performed all these purificatory ceremonies, a small draught is offered to each person to drink in a cottabis of earthenware; and he who offers it says, 'May you sup well.'" But Hegesander the Delphian, in his Commentaries (the beginning of which is "In the best Form of Government"), says—"That which is called the cottabus has been introduced into entertainments, the Sicilians (as Dicæarchus relates) having been the first people to introduce it. And such great fondness was ex