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title: On Vessels and Drinking Cups
title_greek: Ἀπόσπασμα
author: Menesthenes the Historian
eul_wid: gko-aa
eul_aid: gko
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/menesthenes-vessels-cups-gko-aa"
period: Classical
dialect: Attic (frg)
domain: History
format: Prose
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# On Vessels and Drinking Cups

*Ἀπόσπασμα*

**Author:** Menesthenes the Historian

**eul_wid:** `gko-aa` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/menesthenes-vessels-cups-gko-aa)

## Text

## ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΑ. E LIBRO QUARTO.

### 1

Athenaeus XI: Ὅλμο ς , ποτήριον κερατίου τρόπον εἰργασμένον. Μενεσθένης ἐν τετάρτῳ Πολιτικῶν γράφει οὕτως· «Ἀλβατάνης δὲ στρε πτὸν καὶ ὅλμον χρυσοῦν. Ὁ δὲ ὅλμος ἐστὶ ποτήριον κερατίου τρόπον εἰργασμένον, ὕψος ὡς πυγωνιαῖον.»

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