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κάνθαρος . ὅτι μὲν πλοίου ὄνομα κοινόν, ὅτι δὲ καὶ ποτήριόν τι οὕτω καλεῖται Ἀμειψίας ἐν Ἀποκοτταβίζουσί φησι: [p. 90]


ἡ Μανία,1 φέρ᾽ ὀξύβαφα καὶ κανθάρους.
Ἄλεξις δ᾽ ἐν Κρατείᾳ ὁ δὲ λόγος περί τινος ἐν καπηλείῳ πίνοντος:

εἶθ᾽ ὁρῶ τὸν Ἑρμαίσκον τῶν ἁδρῶν τούτων τινὰ
κάνθαρον: καταστρέφοντα, πλησίον δὲ κείμενον
στρωματέα τε καὶ γύλιον αὐτοῦ.
Εὔβουλος δ᾽ ἐν Παμφίλῳ πολλάκις μεμνημένος τοῦ ὀνόματός φησιν:

ἐγὼ δὲ καὶ γὰρ ἔτυχεν ὂν καταντικρὺ
τῆς οἰκίας καινὸν καπηλεῖον μέγα
ἐνταῦθ᾽ ἐπετήρουν τὴν τροφὸν τῆς παρθένου,
κεράσαι κελεύσας τὸν κάπηλόν μοι χόα
ὀβολοῦ παραθεῖναὶ θ᾽ ὡς μέγιστον κάνθαρον.
καὶ πάλιν

ὁ δὲ κάνθαρος πάλαι κενὸς ξηραίνεται.
καὶ ἔτι:

ἅμα δὲ λαβοῦσ᾽ ἠφάνικε πηλίκον τινὰ
οἴεσθε μέγεθος ἐγκρυφίαν μέγαν πάνυ,
καὶ ξηρὸν ἐπόησ᾽ εὐθέως τὸν κάνθαρον.
Ξέναρχος δ᾽ ἐν Πριάπῳ φησὶ τάδε:

σὺ δὲ μηκέτ᾽ ἔγχει, παιδάριον, εἰς ἀργυροῦν,
εἰς τὸ βαθὺ δ᾽ ἐπανάγωμεν: εἰς τὸν κάνθαρον,
παιδάριον, ἔγχει, νὴ Δί᾽ εἰς τὸν κάνθαρον.
Ἐπιγένης Ἡρωίνῃ:

ἀλλ᾽ οὐδὲ κεραμεύουσι νῦν τοὺς κανθάρους, [p. 92]
ὦ τάλαν, ἐκείνους τοὺς ἁδρούς, ταπεινὰ δὲ
καὶ γλαφυρὰ πάντες ... ὡσπερεὶ
αὐτὰ τὰ ποτήρι᾽, οὐ τὸν οἶνον πιόμενοι.

Athenaeus. The Deipnosophists. with an English Translation by. Charles Burton Gulick. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1927. 1.

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