wine-bowl

Grant every favour, — always excepting what is forbidden by our oath on the wine-bowl.

Lysistrata 2000

It might be a small bronze of Dionysos with gilded thyrsos-wand and wreath; or a big wine-bowl painted with Theseus among the Amazons.

The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978

Grant every favour, -- always excepting what is forbidden by our oath on the wine-bowl.

The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

The wine-bowl, too, was crowned with flowers, as at an Egyptian banquet.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

Everywhere flowers abounded; they were formed into wreaths and festoons, they decked the stands that supported the vases in the convivial chamber, and crowned the wine-bowl as well as the servants who bore the cup from it to the assembled guests.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

Far from home, careless and pleasure-seeking, light of purse and light of heart the wandering scholars of the Middle Ages frequented taverns, as well as lecture rooms, and knew the wine-bowl even better than books.

Early European History Hutton Webster

I watched him to the door, catching his robe as the wine-bowl crashed to the floor, spilling a few wet lees

American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany Various

However, just as the wine-bowl spoiled the project of the galleon, so did the treachery of a lickspittle, surely one of the meanest of created things, put an end to the mutiny.

On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922

Then set the rustic bowl upon the table in place of the wine-bowl, and drink the snowy milk and dark must, and soon through the heaps of crackling straw leap in swift course with eager limbs. '

The Religion of Ancient Rome Cyril Bailey 1914

And men, throwing passion into the wine-bowl to sink or swim, turned out thought to browse upon the green cloth.

The Works of Max Beerbohm Max Beerbohm 1914