Charicles : or, Illustrations of the private life of the ancient Greeks : with notes and excursuses . aiKb<; ecTTrepa?,rj ßd\avo^ eKneTTTtaxef sk tov 7priixaT0<:. ^* See Excursus on The Games. 104 CIIARICLES. [Scene YI tlie bowls ? With the manes, decided Glaucon; theresthen more room to display ones skill. A tall candelabrum was set in the midst of the this was suspended the balance, so adjusted, thatwhen the scale-pan descended smartly, it must strike thehead of the manes, placed beneath. Glaucon now steppedforward, his arm bent, with the cylix in his hand, andjerked the re
Charicles : or, Illustrations of the private life of the ancient Greeks : with notes and excursuses . aiKb<; ecTTrepa?,rj ßd\avo^ eKneTTTtaxef sk tov 7priixaT0<:. ^* See Excursus on The Games. 104 CIIARICLES. [Scene YI tlie bowls ? With the manes, decided Glaucon; theresthen more room to display ones skill. A tall candelabrum was set in the midst of the this was suspended the balance, so adjusted, thatwhen the scale-pan descended smartly, it must strike thehead of the manes, placed beneath. Glaucon now steppedforward, his arm bent, with the cylix in his hand, andjerked the residue of the wine towards the scale. But onlya few drops hit it, and the plate merely oscillated a littlefrom side to side. He loves me not, said he, retiring invexation to his seat, You should discharge it more in atJtream, said Ctesiphon. He took the cup, and the humidvolley flew like a ball into the scale-plate, which descended. See Galliis, p. 498, for the cus-tom of wearing garlands on thebreast,vTrodvixiSes or virodvixid^cs. Thoy sometimes occur on monuments. SeeWinkelm. Momirn. ined. A vase-paiulinij from Tischbeiu, Engrav. ii. 45, supposed to represent Dionysos andAiiadne. The chair (Kadedpa) is of a shape that frequently occurs ; on it is a skin(kujSloi) instead of a cushion : on the seat of ,os is a panther-skin ; on his heau 9a garland, and one also on his breast (ÜTroöu/aiäs). Scene \I.] THE BAXQUKT. 105 and rang repeatedly against the bronze head the game went round again and again. At onetime the throw succeeded, at another it did not. Glaucon,too, had the luck, eventually, to obtain a better augury asto his loves ; but Ctesiphon surpassed them all. Yes, said Griaucon, he understands throwing the wineaway, better than drinking it; but now he must do thelatter also. A larger beaker there ! that will hold at leastten cyathi, and also a breast-garland.^^ We will drink ina circle. Whats the harm if we do get a little wetted ? ^^The earth
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