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Definition of Cottabus
1. Noun. A game played by throwing wine at metal disks or pans, trying to knock them down or make them sink in a basin of water. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cottabus
1. an old amusement [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cottabus
Literary usage of Cottabus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lyric Songs of the Greeks: The Extant Fragments of Sappho, Alcaeus by Sappho, Alcaeus, Anacreon (1918)
"MIDST LAUREL AND OLIVE (70 A waving back and forth there is seen Midst dark-leaved
laurel and olive green. THE cottabus GAME (72) In the Sicilian ..."
2. The tyro's Greek and English lexicon; or, A compendium in English of the by John Jones (1825)
"i-/'/r'-< v, the scale of a balance— a platter used in the game cottabus—a thong
for a horse's collar, as a part of his with, scourge, ..."
3. Archaeologia Graeca: Or, The Antiquities of Greece by John Potter, George Dunbar (1818)
"There was another sort of cottabus, wherein a vessel was placed full of water,
... Lastly, another sort of cottabus is mentioned, which was a contention who ..."
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