Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
cyathus .
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Examples
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Then, having bruised the root of seseli to a very fine powder, and poured in some water, let it macerate for four days, and, mixing the water with honey, let the patient drink it, fasting, to the amount of three cyathi, and at the same time purge away the ascarides.
On Fistulae 2007
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Take three cantharides, and removing their head, feet, and wings, triturate their bodies in three cupfuls (cyathi) of water, and when the person who has drunk the draught complains of pain, let him have hot fomentations applied.
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Presently Cæsar arose and mingled with his less exalted guests; when he returned to the upper table the attendants were bringing on the beakers, and the Cisalpine provincials were pledging one another in draughts of many _cyathi_, "prosperity to the proconsul, and confusion to his enemies."
A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903
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As to the “cyathi” and cups of the ancients, see the last Scene of the Stichus of
The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes Terence 1847
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Falernian, the fruitiest and richest of the Italian wines, not much unlike the modern sherry, but having still more body, and many cyathi, or drinking cups; but he brought in no water, wherewith the more temperate ancients were wont to mix their heady wines, even in so great a ratio as nine to one of the generous liquor.
The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2) Henry William Herbert 1832
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Indusia cyathi - forrnia turhinata, laciniis sub apice inserta,
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Indusia cyathi - formia ohovata pedicellata in pinnuLarum axjl - lis.
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Vobis fi culpa efl bilis: fua quemque fequuntur Fata; quod inmeriticrimen habent cyathi?
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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How completely would the _hookah_ and the _narghileh_ have harmonized with the _crater, cyathi_, and tripods of the _triclinium_ in that portraiture of the "Decadence of
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various
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"And a word more in closing," said Pratinas, as he parted with Phaon in the tavern -- while Lucius, who had been drinking very heavily, nodded stupidly over his goblet of amber Falernian, in a vain attempt to gulp down eight _cyathi_ at once, one measure to each letter in the name of Cornelia -- "a word more.
A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903
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