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PART
II.
CUPS,
AND
SOCIAL DEINKS.
—
—
The
words
“
cup
”
and
“
bumper,”
and
many
other
of
our
social
terms,
can
be
traced
to
the
con-
vivial
usages
of
the
ancients.
The
custom
of
dedicating
a
cup
to
a
favourite
deity
led,
by
an
easy
transition,
to
that
of
pledging
each
other
—
the
origin of
modern
toasts.
According
to
Casaubon,
the
ancients
took
three
cups
at
their
banquets
:
one,
to
allay
thirst
;
another,
for
pleasure
;
and
a
third,
as
a
libation to
Jupiter
Servator
:
Ho
!
boy,
there,
a
cup
!
Brim
full
to
the
new
moon.
Ho
!
hoy,
there,
a
cup
!
Brim
full
for
the
midnight.
Ho
!
hoy,
there,
a
cup
!
Brim
full
to
the
health
Of
him
we
would
honour,
Murena
the
Augur.
Horace.