A dictionary of Greek and Roman . ee. TheRhetra of Lycurgus emanated from the Delphiangod : but the kings, senators, and people all boundthemselves, both to each other and to the gods toobey it. (Grote, Hist, of Greece, vol. ii. p. 462 ;for a different explanation of the word, see Thirl-wall, Hist, of Greece, vol. i. p. 335, 2d ed.) RHYTON (pvrov), a drinking-horn (/cepa?), bywhich name it was originally called, is said by Athe-naeus (xi. p. 497, b) to have been first made underPtolemy Philadelphus; but it is even mentionedin Demosthenes (c. Mid. p. 565. 29), as Athenaeushimself
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . ee. TheRhetra of Lycurgus emanated from the Delphiangod : but the kings, senators, and people all boundthemselves, both to each other and to the gods toobey it. (Grote, Hist, of Greece, vol. ii. p. 462 ;for a different explanation of the word, see Thirl-wall, Hist, of Greece, vol. i. p. 335, 2d ed.) RHYTON (pvrov), a drinking-horn (/cepa?), bywhich name it was originally called, is said by Athe-naeus (xi. p. 497, b) to have been first made underPtolemy Philadelphus; but it is even mentionedin Demosthenes (c. Mid. p. 565. 29), as Athenaeushimself also remarks. The oldest and originalform of this drinking-horn was probably the hornof the ox, but one end of it was afterwards orna-mented with the heads of various animals andbirds. We frequently find representations of thepvrov on ancient vases depicting symposia. Severalspecimens of these drinking-horns have also beendiscovered at Pompeii (Museo Borbonico, vol. , v. 20) : representations of two of these aregiven in the annexed The pvrov had a small opening at the bottom,which the person who drank put into his mouth,and allowed the wine to run in : hence it derivedits name (oovofxaadai re curb rrjs pvaecus, p. 497, e). We see persons using the pvrov inthis way in ancient paintings. (Pitt. dErcol. v. ; Zahn, Wandgem. t. 90.) Martial(ii. 35) speaks of it under the name of Rhytium.(Becker, ChariMes, vol. i. p. 505.) RICA. [Flamen.] RICFNTUM, RECFNIUM or RECINUS,anarticle of dress. The name was according to Festus(s. v.) applied to any dress consisting of a squarepiece of cloth. It occurs in a fragment of theTwelve Tables (Cic. cle Leg. ii. 23), and the ancient commentators according to Festus explainedthe word there as a toga for women (if the readingVer. togam be right instead of virilem togam), witha purple stripe in front. That it was an article offemale dress, and more especially a small and shortkind of pallium, is stated by Nonius (x
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