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Title: Charicles : or, Illustrations of the private life of the ancient Greeks : with notes and excursuses
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Becker, W. A. (Wilhelm Adolf), 1796-1846 Metcalfe, Frederick, 1815-1885
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Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
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p. 427With regard to the usual proportions, see Gallus, p. 129, noteThere was always more water than wine; and the mixture iaoilau), half and half, was repudiated as highly intoxicating. FronAthenaeus, Plutarch, and Eustathius, we gather that the usuaproportions were six parts of water to two, three, or four of wineThe first of these, which is recommended by Hesiod, was consi-dered vdap))g by most people, and was called ßarpa^oig otVo^otTrSee Pherecrates, apud Athen, x. p. 430. But some wines woulcbear this quantity of water ; see Poll. vi. 18 : eiri^yovy ce olyov toirpia (bepoyra, tovte(tti to TpnrXovy too v^dTaQ. Such wine is callec7roXv(f>6pog by Aristophanes, Plut. 853. The opposite to this isuvr<kpac. Poll. vi. 24. The mixing took place, according to ancient custom, in a largebowl, hence called K-parZ/jO ; and from this it was distributed intcthe cups of the drinkers. Procl. ad Hesiod. Epy. 744 : b ^hyap KpuTtip irpovKEiTO tcotybg Ey Ta7g TpuiTfXaig e/c ^e ri/g otjo^o/y»
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« K_ S. dQj 7Z a. ~ • z2 SCEXE %T) THE SYMPOSIA. 341 apvofxeroL tTTivor ol (TinhiTryovvrec. The oivoxofl answered thosame purpose as our ladle ; seo Poll. vi. 19 ; x. 75. The passagein Hesiod, fxriliiror olvo^or^v Tidifiey Kprjrijpog vTrepdeu vrti oirwi^,probably refers to some superstitious belief that it was unluckyto lay the ladle across the Kparrjp, an act which might imply acessation of the carouse. The ouoxori was quite different in formfiom the Kvadoc, being shaped more like a tankard, as we seefrom many antiques Panofka, Recherches, PI. v. 101. Thesecraters are found in representations of Bacchic scenes, as well abof mere symposia. See Stuart, Antiq. of Ath. vol. i. ch. iv. pi. 11.See also the accompanying plate. The custom of mixing all the wine at once lasted till a late,period, as appears from Theophrastus, Char, 13, where onefeature of the character of a ivepiepyor is said to be TrXeiio ceETravayicdoraL toi iralZa fceparrai, i) oVa Cvvavrai ol irapovTti,UirLE~Lv. But oc

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