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some demanding the Cup of the Good Deity, others that of Health, and different people invoking different deities; and so they all fell to quoting the words of those poets who had mentioned libations to these different deities; and I will now recapitulate what they said, for they quoted Antiphanes, who, in his Clowns, says—

Harmodius was invoked, the pæan sung, Each drank a mighty cup to Jove the Saviour.

And Alexis, in his Usurer, or The Liar, says—

A. Fill now the cup with the libation due To Jove the Saviour; for he surely is    Of all the gods most useful to mankind.

B. Your Jove the Saviour, if I were to burst, Would nothing do for me.

A. Just drink, and trust him.

And Nicostratus, in his Pandrosos, says—

And so I will, my dear; But fill him now a parting cup to Health; Here, pour a due libation out to Health. Another to Good Fortune. Fortune manages All the affairs of men; but as for Prudence,— That is a blind irregular deity.

And in the same play he mentions mixing a cup in honour of the Good Deity, as do nearly all the poets of the old comedy; but Nicostratus speaks thus—

Fill a cup quickly now to the Good Deity, And take away this table from before me; For I have eaten quite enough;—I pledge This cup to the Good Deity;—here, quick, I say, And take away this table from before me.

Xenarchus, too, in his Twins, says—

And now when I begin to nod my head, The cup to the Good Deity * *

That cup, when I had drain'd it, near upset me; And then the next libation duly quaff'd To Jove the Saviour, wholly wreck'd my boat, And overwhelm'd me as you see.

And Eriphus, in his Melibœa, says—

Before he'd drunk a cup to the Good Deity, Or to great Jove the Saviour.

48. And Theophrastus, in his essay on Drunkenness, says—"The unmixed wine which is given at a banquet, which they call the pledge-cup in honour of the Good Deity, they offer in small quantities, as if reminding the guests of its strength,