Note 57 — Chapter III
William P. (William Purdie) Dickson translation
This epigram on “barley–wine” is preserved (Anthol. Pal. ix. 368):
Τίς πόθεν εἶς Διόνυσε; μὰ γὰρ τὸν ἀληθέα Βάκχον, οὐ σ’ ἐπιγιγνώσκω· τὸν Διὸς οἶδα μόνον. κεῖνος νέκταρ ὄδωδε· σὺ δὲ τράγου· ἦ ῥά σε Κελτοὶ τῇ πενίῃ βοτρύων τεῦξαν ἀπ’ ἀσταχύων. τῷ σε χρὴ καλέειν Δημήτριον, οὐ Διόνυσον, πυρογένη μᾶλλον καὶ βρόμον, οὐ Βρόμιον.
On an earthen ring found in Paris (Mowat, Bull. épig. de la Gaule, ii. 110; iii. 133), which is hollow and adapted for the filling of cups, the drinker says to the host: copo, conditu(m) [cnoditu is a misspelling] abes; est reple(n)da— “Host, thou hast more in the cellar; the flask is empty;” and to the barmaid: ospita, reple lagona(m) cervesa—“Girl, fill the flask with beer.”