There were boats with such a name, kantharoi, made in Naxos; the ones they now call silphai, particular kinds of light craft. Cratinus says that once, when they were masters of the sea, [the] Naxians used to use these kantharoi.[1] Or [sc. the headword phrase is to be explained] thus: the men of former times used to create constructions with the same names as the cities that had invented the boats; e.g. they used to call 'Naxian-mades' the present-day lemboi.[2] From the same [principle] [there are said] to be, also, 'Knidos-mades' from Knidos, and 'Kerkyra' from Kerkyra, and [a] 'Paron'[3] from Paros. But Menander in Ship-owner declared outright a kantharos to be a boat.[4] It is also a kind of drinking-vessel. And in Peiraieus [there is] Kantharos's Harbour. For there are three harbours [sc. there], this Kantharos's and the Aphrodision and five stoas in a circle.[5] [It is named] after a hero Kantharos.