He took an agèd woman, who had been A long time ill, sick of a ling'ring fever, And bruising some small root, and putting it Into a noble-sized lepaste there, He made her drink it all, to cure her sickness. Philyllius, in his Auge, says— For she was always in the company Of young men, who did nothing else but drink; And with a lot of aged women too, Who always do delight in good-sized cups. And Theopompus says in his Pamphila— A sponge, a dish, a feather; and, besides, A stout lepaste, which, when full, they drain To the Good Deity, raising loud his praises, As chirps a grasshopper upon a tree. And in his Mede he says— Callimachus, 'tis stated, once did charm The Grecian heroes by some promised gain, When he was seeking for their aid and friendship. The only thing he fail'd in was th' attempt To gain the poor, thin-bodied Rhadamanthus Lysander with a cothon, ere he gave him A full lepaste. But Amerias says that the ladle with which the wine is poured into the cups is called lepaste; but Aristophanes and Apollodorus say that it is a sort of cup of the class κύλιξ. Pherecrates, in his Crapatalli, says— [Sidenote: DRINKING-CUPS.] If there was one of the spectators thirsty, He would a full lepaste seize, and drain The whole contents. But Nicander the Colophonian says that "the Dolopians give the name of λεπαστὴ to the κύλιξ; but Lycophron, in the ninth book of his treatise on Comedy, quoting this passage of Pherecrates, himself also asserts the lepaste to be kind of κύλιξ; but Moschus, in his Interpretation of Rhodiat Words, says that it is an earthenware vessel resembling those which are called ptomatides, but flatter and wider: but Artemidorus, the pupil of Aristophanes, says that it is some sort of drinking-cup. And Apollophanes, in his Cretans, says— And the lepasta, fill'd with fragrant wine, Shall fill me with delight the livelong day. And Theopompus says in his Pamphila— A stout lepaste, which, well-fill'd with wine, They drain in honour of the Happy Deity, Rousing the village with their noise and clamour. But Nicander of Thyatira says it is a larger kind of κύλιξ, quoting the expressions of Teleclides out of his Prytanes— To drink sweet wine from a sweet-smelling lepaste. And Hermippus, in his Fates, says— If anything should happen to me when I've drain'd this promising lepaste, then I give my whole possessions unto Bacchus. 71. There is also the loibasium. This, too, is a κύλιξ, as Clearchus and Nicander of Thyatira say; with which they pour libations of oil over the sacred offerings and victims. Spondeum is the name given to the cup out of which they pour libations of wine. And he says that the spondea are also called loibides, by Antimachus of Colophon. Then we have the lesbium. This also is a kind of cup, as Hedylus proves in his Epigrams, where he says—