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 And Apollodorus, in his Paphians, says there is a kind of drinking-cup called [Greek: kymba].

65. Then there is the [Greek: kypellon]. Now, is this the same as the [Greek: aleison] and the [Greek: depas], and different from them only in name?

Then rising, all with goblets ([Greek: kypellois]) in their hands, The peers and leaders of the Achaian bands Hail'd their return.

Or was their form different also? For this kind has not the character of the amphicupellum, as the depas and aleison have, but is only of a curved form. For the [Greek: kypellon] is so called from its curved shape, as also is the [Greek: amphikypellon]. Or is it so called as being in shape like a milk-pail ([Greek: pella]), only contracted a little, so as to have an additional curve? And the word [Greek: amphikypella] is equivalent to [Greek: amphikyrta], being so called from its handles, because they are of a curved shape. For the poet calls this cup—

Golden, two-handled.

But Antimachus, in the fifth book of his Thebais, says—

And heralds, going round among the chiefs, Gave each a golden cup ([Greek: kypellon]) with labour wrought.

And Silenus says, the [Greek: kypella] are a kind of cup resembling the [Greek: skypha], as Nicander the Colophonian says—

The swineherd gave a goblet ([Greek: kypellon]) full to each.

And Eumolpus says that it is a kind of cup, so called from its being of a curved shape ([Greek: kyphon]). But Simaristus says that this is a name given by the Cyprians to a cup with two handles, and by the Cretans to a kind of cup with two handles, and to another with four. And Philetas says that the Syracusans give the name of [Greek: kypellon] to the fragments of barley-cakes and loaves which are left on the tables.

There is also the [Greek: kymbê]. Philemon, in his Attic Dialect, calls it "a species of [Greek: kylix]." And Apollodorus, in his treatise on Etymologies, says, that the Paphians call a drinking-cup [Greek: kymba].

66. Then there is the [Greek: kôthôn], which is mentioned by Xenophon, in the first book of his Cyropædia. But Critias, in his Constitution of the Lacedæmonians, writes as follows—"And other small things besides which belong to human life; such as the Lacedæmonian shoes, which are the best, and the Lacedæmonian garments, which are the most pleasant to wear, and the most useful. There is also the Lacedæmonian