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	Learn more about Drinking game in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		Cottabus is an ancient game involving skill in pouring a swig of wine into a large vessel.
		A modern variant of Cottabus, known as Arrogance, has players take turns to add as much beverage as they like to a central jug before correctly calling a flip of a coin.
		Failure to call the coin correctly (or dropping it, a real possibility during the later stages of the game), means the unlucky (or clumsily drunk) player must drink the entire contents of the central jug.
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	Cottabus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		To succeed in the of the game no small amount of was required and unusual ability in the was rated as high as corresponding excellence throwing the javelin.
		Not only was the cottabus the accompaniment of the festal assembly but at in Sicily a special building of a circular was sometimes erected so that the players be easily arranged round the basin and each other in rapid succession.
		The object of the player was to a portion of wine left in his drinking cup in a way that without breaking bulk in passage through the air it should reach certain object set up as a mark there produce a distinct noise by its Both the wine thrown and the noise were called
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	COTTABUS (Gr. Kb-rra(3os) - Online Information article about COTTABUS (Gr. Kb-rra(3os)
		Both the wine thrown and the noise made were called Xarah.
		form of the game, was expected to retain the recumbent position that was usual at table, and, in flinging the cottabus, to make use of his right See also:
		To succeed in the aim no small amount of dexterity was required, and unusual ability in the game was rated as high as corresponding excellence in throwing the See also:
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	GAME LAWS - LoveToKnow Article on GAME LAWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		There were fifteen pieces on each side, and the moves were determined by a throw of the dice; blots might be taken, and the object of the player was to clear offal!
		Lastly must be mentioned the Cottabus (q.v.), a game peculiar to the Greeks, and with them the usual accompaniment of a wine party.
		In its simplest form each guest threw what was left in his cup into a metal basin, and the success of the throw, determined partly by the sound of the wine in falling, was reckoned a divination of love.
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		To succeed in the aim no small amount of dexterity was required, and unusual ability in the game was rated as high as corresponding excellence in throwing the javelin.
		Not only was the cottabus the ordinary accompaniment of the festal assembly, but at least in Sicily aspecial building of a circular form was sometimes erected so that the players might be easily arranged round the basin, and follow each other in rapid succession.
		Like all games in which the element of chance found a place, it was regarded as more or less ominous of the future success of the players, especially in matters of love; and the excitement was sometimes further augmented by some object of value being staked on the event.
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	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 367 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		A fourth kind of cottabus, which was called ic6TTa€os KaraKr6s (airb rov Kardyew rbv k.ot-Tagov), is described by Pollux (vi.
		In Sicily, the popularity of this game was so great, that houses were built for the especial purpose of playing the cottabus in them.
		Those readers who wish to become fully acquainted with all the various forms of this game, may consult Athenaeus (xv.
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	The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay. Volume I. - Chapter III
		I must sup on thyme and onions, while you are swallowing thrushes and hares!
		I must drink water, that you may play the cottabus (This game consisted in projecting wine out of cups; it was a diversion extremely fashionable at Athenian entertainments.) with Chian wine!
		I must wander about as ragged as Pauson (Pauson was an Athenian painter, whose name was synonymous with beggary.
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		The Cottabus is a strange creature, who must ask fifty questions every day.
		If he doesn't, he'll roll up in his rocking chair and waste away.
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