Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Epichysis

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

EPICH'YSIS (ἐπίχυσις). A Greek jug, with a small and narrow lip, out of which wine was poured at an entertainment into the cup from which it was drunk; and adopted by the Romans, as they advanced in civilization, instead of the less elegant guttus, previously used by them for a similar purpose. (Plaut. Rud. v. 2. 22. Varro, L. L. v. 124.) The illustration (Epichysis/1.1) represents an epichysis, with the receiving cup of glass, from a Pompeian painting, and a Nereid pouring wine out of one into a patera, from a painting of Stabia. In all the numerous pictures of Pompeii, &c., which represent the act of pouring wine from a jug, the jug is constantly formed with a small neck and narrow lip, like those exhibited above; which identifies the epichysis, and establishes its difference from the ewer, or water jug (gutturnium, πρόχοος), which had a thicker throat and wider lip.

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