cottabus

Before the evening is over various games will be ordered in, especially the "cottabus," which is in great vogue.

A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life William Stearns Davis 1903

So Aenesidemus is said to have sent the ‘cottabus’ prize to Gelon, who had just reduced a town to slavery, because Gelon had got there first and forestalled his own attempt.

Rhetoric Aristotle 2002

Pour lead into the hollow and fit a good, long stick to the top; and you will have a balanced cottabus.

Peace 2000

For (to Phidippides) consider, O youth, all that attaches to modesty, and of how many pleasures you are about to be deprived -- of women, of games at cottabus, of dainties, of drinking-bouts, of giggling.

Clouds 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

Some of the company, however, regard this as too profound, and after trying their skill at the cottabus betake themselves to the never failing chances of dice.

A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life William Stearns Davis 1903

While most of the company prefer the cottabus, two, who profess to be experts, call for a gaming board and soon are deep in the "game of towns" -- very like to latter-day "checkers," played with a board divided into numerous squares.

A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life William Stearns Davis 1903

I must drink water, that you may play the cottabus (This game consisted in projecting wine out of cups; it was a diversion extremely fashionable at Athenian entertainments.) with Chian wine!

Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

Come, it’s only a game of cottabus!” said Glaucia, and changed the subject.

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

"There’s more pattern and less chance to it than there is in a game of cottabus."

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990