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 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.

100. But as for the word [Greek: lagynon], they say that that is the name of a measure among the Greeks, as also are the words [Greek: choos] and [Greek: kotylê]. And they say that the [Greek: lagynon] contains twelve Attic [Greek: kotylai]. And at Patræ they say that there is a regular measure called [Greek: hê lagynos]. But Nicostratus, in his Hecate, has used the word in the masculine gender, [Greek: ho lagynos], where he says—

A. And yet among the flagons into which We pour'd the wine out of the casks, now tell me    What is the measure some of them contain ([Greek: pêlikoi tines])? B. They hold three choes each.

And again he says—

Bring us the full flagon ([Greek: ton meston lagynon]).

And, in the play entitled The Couch, he says—

And this most odious flagon's ([Greek: lagynos houtos]) full of vinegar.

Diphilus, in his People Saved, says—

I have an empty flagon, my good woman, And a full wallet.

And Lynceus the Samian, in his letter to Diagoras, says,—"At the time that you sojourned in Samos, O Diagoras, I know that you often came to banquets at my house, at which a flagon was placed by each man, and filled with wine, so as to allow every one to drink at his pleasure." And Aristotle, in his Constitution of the Thessalians, says that the word is used by the Thessalians in the feminine gender, as [Greek: hê lagynos]. And Rhianus the epic poet, in his Epigrams, says—

This flagon ([Greek: hêde lagynos]), O Archinus, seems to hold One half of pitch from pines, one half of wine; And I have never met a leaner kid: And he who sent these dainties to us now, Hippocrates, has done a friendly deed, And well deserves to meet with praise from all men.

But Diphilus, in his Brothers, has used the word in the neuter gender—

O conduct worthy of a housebreaker Or felon, thus to take a flagon now Under one's arm, and so go round the inns; And then to sell it, while, as at a picnic,