A dictionary of Greek and Roman . uet. Ner. 49, Tit. 9 ; Tacit. ) CURSUS. [Circus.]CURULIS SELLA. [Sella Curulis.]CUSTODES. [Comitia, p. 336, b.]CUSTODES, CUSTODIAE. [Castra,p. 250, b.] CUSTOS URBIS. [Praefectus Urbi.]CYATHUS {icvados), is one of the numerouswords, containing the element kv, and signifj-ingsomething hollow: it is applied, for example, tothe hollow of the hand. Its general meaning is acup of any kind ; and it constantly occurs as thename of a sort of drinking vessel used by the Ro-mans, who borrowed it from the Greeks (Varro,De Ling. Lot. v. 124, ed. Miil
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . uet. Ner. 49, Tit. 9 ; Tacit. ) CURSUS. [Circus.]CURULIS SELLA. [Sella Curulis.]CUSTODES. [Comitia, p. 336, b.]CUSTODES, CUSTODIAE. [Castra,p. 250, b.] CUSTOS URBIS. [Praefectus Urbi.]CYATHUS {icvados), is one of the numerouswords, containing the element kv, and signifj-ingsomething hollow: it is applied, for example, tothe hollow of the hand. Its general meaning is acup of any kind ; and it constantly occurs as thename of a sort of drinking vessel used by the Ro-mans, who borrowed it from the Greeks (Varro,De Ling. Lot. v. 124, ed. Miiller) ; but whetherit designates the cup out of which the wine wasdrunk, or the small ladle by means of which itwas transferred from the mixing-bowl {Kparrjp)into the drinking-cup, is a disputed point. Orelliasserts that it is never used in the latter sense,and that the ladle was called iiTixvcris, or trullavinaria {Ad Horat. Carm. iii. 8. 13). But thepassages in which the word occurs bear out theopinion of Becker, that the ladle was called cy-. CYMBALUM. CYMBALUM. 381 athus. (See the Lexicons of Scott and Liddell,Seiler and Jacobitz, and Facciolati; Becker,ChariMes, vol. i. p. 463.) Two of these cyathiare represented in the preceding woodcut, fromthe Museo Borbonico, vol. iv. pi. 12. They wereusually of bronze or silver. The cyathus is re-ferred to as a measure of the quantity of winewhich a person drank. (Hor. Carm. iii. 8. 13, ) A slave was appointed to supply the drink-ing-cups of the banqueters by means of the cy-athus. (Hor. Carm. I 29. 8 ; Suet. Caes. 49 ;Juv. Sat. ix. 46.) Another sense in which the word occurs is, insurgery, for a cup for cupping (Aristoph. , Pax, 542 ; Aristot. Probl. ix. 9). The cyathus was a definite measure, with boththe Greeks and the Romans, containing one-twelfthof the sextarius. It was the uncia, considered withreference to the sextarius as the unit; hence wehave sextans used for a vessel containing the sixthof the sextarius, or two
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