Πάντα ταῦτα ἐπείρασα ἐν τῇ σοφίᾳ: εἶπα Σοφισθήσομαι, καὶ αὐτὴ ἐμακρύνθη ἀπ' ἐμοῦ· κτλ. (Εcclesiastes 7:23f., LXX version) → I tried to give proof in wisdom of all those things; I said, I will be wise, but that wisdom was far from me ...
pōcillum: i, n.
dim. poculum,
I a little cup: pocillum fictile, Cato, R. R. 156: mulsi, Liv. 10, 42 fin.; cf. Plin. 14, 13, 14, § 91: argenteum, Suet. Vesp. 2.