ivy-wood

• “In both hands he took a cup of ivy-wood, and drank the unmixed wine of the dark grape-mother, until he was encompassed and heated with the flame of wine.”

  Alcestis

• “We, as we trod the infinite fruit of Iacchus, mingled and wound in the rhythm of the revel, and now the fathomless flood flowed down, and like boats our cups of ivy-wood swam on the sweet surges; dipping wherewith, we drank just as it lay at our hand, nor missed the warm water-nymphs overmuch.”

  Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology

• “The swineherd then mixed wine in a bowl of ivy-wood, and taking a seat opposite”

  The Odyssey

• “He mixed wine also in bowls of ivy-wood, and took his seat facing”

  The Odyssey

• “A deep bowl of ivy-wood, too, I will give thee, rubbed with sweet bees'-wax, a twy-eared bowl newly wrought, smacking still of the knife of the graver.”

  Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose

• “Finding that I would not taste the alcoholic liquor, which the natives always mixed with a large proportion of water, Doto rose, went out, and returned with a great bowl of ivy-wood, curiously carved, and full of milk.”

  In the Wrong Paradise

• “The swineherd then mixed wine in a bowl of ivy-wood, and taking a seat opposite Ulysses told him to begin.”

  The Odyssey

• “So I went up to him with an ivy-wood bowl of black wine in my hands:”

  The Odyssey

• “He mixed wine also in bowls of ivy-wood, and took his seat facing Ulysses.”

  The Odyssey

• “He also mixed wine in a bowl of ivy-wood, and sat down opposite his guest, and bade him eat, saying: "Eat now such food as I can give thee; as for the fat hogs, them the suitors devour.”

  The Story of the Odyssey

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