The headword occurs in Pherecrates fr.156 Kock (preserved by Athenaeus).
[1] Menecles of Barca, an historian of the C2 BCE (cf. epsilon 3029, kappa 1354): FGrH 270 F7a.
[2] "An olive branch carried by singing boys at the Pyanopsia and (?) Thargelia at Athens, and at an unknown festival of Apollo on Samos. At the Pyanopsia, a public eiresione was deposited at a temple of Apollo, others at house doors (where they remained, probably, till the next year). The branch was hung with figs, fruits, and other symbols of agricultural abundance, and according to the song brought 'figs and fat loaves' and other good things with it; householders were expected to give the boys a present in return" (R.Parker in OCD(3) s.v.). See further under epsiloniota 184.
[3] Something is amiss here. In the 16th century Henricus Stephanus (Henri Etienne) added the participle "carrying." But why "other" round cakes, when no others are named? Perhaps follow the paroemiographer Arsenius and Menecles' editor Jacoby in reading "forming" (plattontes) for "playing" (plettontes): "forming a lyre and a cymbal...and some other round cakes." But then "and a branch" is a problem. Nevertheless, given the appearance of another form of the participle plattontes in Amerias' definition of the word (see below), reading plattontes for plettontes here is attractive.
[4] A Macedonian lexicographer of the third century BCE (cited in the Suda here only); see generally L. Cohn, "Amerias," RE 1 (1894) col. 1827.