102 Lutz, Viticulture and Brewing. 



Let the cup reach me. You knovv^ it is due unto the ha to 



j W ^ \X^ ''^"^ /wwTA ^^^^ ( 1. See also Lepsius, Aus- 



wahl, 16, line 16: "Do not cease to drink, to eat, to intoxi- 

 cate thyself, to make love, (and) to celebrate good days". 



The Egyptian toast seeins to have consisted in the address: 



Jii-k^ i. e., "to thy double", or rather fii-hr-tii, \ | j { | which 



word is preserved in the name of the month Koiahk. KlAgK, 

 XOlAgK, XOIAK; xoicck and in the name of the vessel ku-i- 

 ih-ku (Winckler, Amarnataf. No. 294; see OLZ, 1899, Vol. 



li, 105). 



A few songs, which seem to have been most popular at 

 banquets, have come down to us. They contain exhortations 

 similar to the one Herodotus had taken down. The Egyp- 

 tians are advised therein to enjoy life to the utmost, and to 

 use every day for mirthmaking until the day shall come to 

 depart for the land whence none returns. Pap, Harris 500, 

 6, 107,32: 



"Place aromatics on thy head! 



The garment on thyself (let be) of byssus, 



Dipped into the precious 



(and) genuine things of the gods! 



Surpass (even) thy life of pleasure (shown hitherto)! 



Let [not] thy heart get weary! 



Perform thy affairs on earth 



I) Lit. "Behold". 



2) See Goodwin, TSBA, III, 387; Maspero, Journ. Ksiat,, 1880, 404 

 also Etud. Egypt. I, 164; Erraan, Aeg. 516, Griffith, World's Best Lit. 5316 and 

 Miiller, Liebesfoesie, pp. 29 and 30, See also Miiller, ibid. pp. 31 33 and the 

 text published in Reinisch, Aegypt. Chrestomatkie I, 20, in which the deceased 

 lady Ta-imhotep, the wife of the high-priest of Memphis, implores her hus- 

 band to enjoy this present life to the utmost, since the underworld is a land 

 of dense darkness and a dreary place for the dead. 



