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Carchesium

καρχήσιον).


1.

A kind of cup, rather long, narrower in the middle than at either extremity, and with handles (ὦτα) stretching from the top to the bottom. Asclepiades (in Ath. 488 foll.)

Carchesium.

mentions carchesia among those vessels which have feet. It was a peculiarly Greek cup (Macrob. Sat. v. 21init.), and generally of a splendid nature.


2.

The same term designated the tops of a ship— i. e. the structure surmounting the mast immediately above the yards (antennae). See Navis.

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