Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author . hroughout antiquity; for theancients—wiser than we are—never drank wine unless mixed with find the word /cprjrtfpmentioned fourteen timesin the Iliad,2 includingthree instances in theplural. But terra-cottamixing vessels being toocheap and common forheroes, the poet musthave had in view Kprj-rrjpes of metal—namely,gold, silver, or perhaps bronze or copper; foronce he expressly saystha
Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author . hroughout antiquity; for theancients—wiser than we are—never drank wine unless mixed with find the word /cprjrtfpmentioned fourteen timesin the Iliad,2 includingthree instances in theplural. But terra-cottamixing vessels being toocheap and common forheroes, the poet musthave had in view Kprj-rrjpes of metal—namely,gold, silver, or perhaps bronze or copper; foronce he expressly saysthat Achilles, holdingin his hand a double-handled goblet (8e7ra?afifyiKvireXXoy), pouredall night wine from agolden mixing vessel(fcprjTrjp) on the earthand moistened it withthe Anothertime he makes Achillesset a silver Kpr^rrjp asa prize for the foot-raceat the funeral third time he makesHector order the heraldIdaeus to bring from Trov a ^hinino- Truvino- No. 438. Large Mixing Vessel (Crater) with four handles, 1 ft. 9in. * fcuiumg mixing in diameter. (1:9 actual size. Depth, 23ft.) No. 437. Mixing Vessel (Crater) with two handles.(About 1 : 4 actual size. Depth, 32 ft.). 1 We see pure wine (ohos anparos) used in theHomeric poems only for libations ; so //. ii. 341,and iv. 159: (Tirovdal t fapriToi Kal 5e£mi, fjs itr^id^ Romans certainly occasionally drank will not dispute that the Greeks may, in latertimes, have also occasionally used &, Philip Smith makes the ingenious obser-vation : To drink wine without water wasof itself a sign of intemperance, marking connection between two words of quitedifferent ^origin —the & ohos and theaKparris \p who drank it. 2 I deem it my most agreeable duty to makehere a warm acknowledgment to my honouredfriend Mr. Guy Lushington Prendergast, for theimmense service he has rendered to science bycomposing a Concordance to the Iliad of Homer(London, 1875), which is a wonderful w
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