_A._ Still drink (πῖθι), I bid you. _B._ I'll obey you, then, For certainly a goblet's figure is A most seductive shape, and fairly worthy The glory of a festival. We have— Have not we? (for it is not long ago)— Drunk out of cruets of vile earthenware. May the Gods now, my child, give happiness And all good fortune to the clever workman For the fair shape that he bestow'd on thee. [Sidenote: FORMS OF ΠΙΝΩ.] And Diphilus, in his Bath, says— Fill the cup full, and hide the mortal part, The goblet made by man, with godlike wine: Drink (πῖθι); these are gifts, my father, given us By the good Jove, who thus protects companionship. And Ameipsias, in his Sling, says— When you have stirr'd the sea-hare, take and drink (πῖθι). And Menander, in his Female Flute-player, says— Away with you; have you ne'er drunk, O Sosilas? Drink (πῖθι) now, I beg, for you are wondrous mad. 66. And in the future tense of πίνω, we should not read πιοῦμαι, but πιόμαι without the υ, lengthening the ι. And this is the way the future is formed in that line of Homer— (πιόμεν᾽ ἐκ βοτάνης) Drank after feeding. And Aristophanes, in his Knights, says— He ne'er shall drink (πίεται) of the same cup with me: and in another place he says— Thou shalt this day drink (πίει) the most bitter wine; though this might, perhaps, come from πιοῦμαι. Sometimes, however, they shorten the ι, as Plato does, in his Women Returning from Sacrifice— Nor he who drinks up (ἐκπίεται) all her property: and in his Syrphax he says— And ye shall drink (πίεσθε) much water. And Menander uses the word πῖε as a dissyllable, in his Dagger— _A._ Drink (πῖε). _B._ I will compel this wretch, This sacrilegious wretch, to drink (πιεῖν) it first: and the expression τῆ πίε, take and drink, and πῖνε, drink. So do you, my friend, drink; and as Alexis says, in his Twins,— Pledge you (πρόπιθι) this man, that he may pledge another. And let it be a cup of comradeship, which Anaceron calls ἐπίστιος. For that great lyric poet says— And do not chatter like the wave Of the loud brawling sea, with that Ever-loquacious Gastrodora, Drinking the cup ἐπίστιος. But the name which we give it is ἀνίσων. 67. But do not you be afraid to drink; nor will you be in any danger of falling on your hinder parts; for the people who drink what Simonides calls— Wine, the brave router of all melancholy,