Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists
C. D. Yonge, B.A., Ed.

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And Apollodorus of Gela, in his Philadelphi, or the Man who killed himself by Starvation, says—

Then there were robes of fine embroidery,
And silver plate, and very skilful chasers
Who ornament the thericlean cups,
And many other noble bowls besides.

And Aristophon, in his Philonides, says—

Therefore my master very lately took
The well-turn'd orb of a thericlean cup,
Full foaming to the brim with luscious wine,
Mix'd half-and-half, a most luxurious draught,
[p. 753] And gave it me as a reward for virtue;
I think because of my tried honesty;
And then, by steeping me completely in it,
He set me free.

And Theophilus, in his Bœotia, says—

He mixes beautifully a large cup
Of earthenware, of thericlean fashion,
Holding four pints, and foaming o'er the brim;
Not Autocles himself, by earth I swear,
Could in his hand more gracefully have borne it.

And, in his Prœtides, he says—

And bring a thericlean cup, which holds
More than four pints, and's sacred to good fortune.

There is also a cup called the Isthmian cup: and Pamphilus, in his treatise on Names, says that this is a name given to a certain kind of cup by the inhabitants of Cyprus.