C. Suvetonii Tranquilli De XII Caesaribus libri VIII. Isaacus Casaubonus iterum recensuit. Accessit ejusdem Animadversionum appendicula. Additi etiam sunt Suetonii libelli De illustribus grammaticis

Among these symposia is one called "eωλοκρασία" the drinking of yesterday's wine. Another is the kottabos an ancient Greek game of skill involving wine dregs, along with the latage the splashing sound of wine dregs. For young men, reveling in designated places near evening, placing the jugs and pitchers, each showing his manhood, drank his own jug. And whoever was not strong enough to drink his own jug was held until morning, while his fellow drinkers laughed. That was the eωλοκρασία. But learn about the kottabos. In the symposium, a balance and small basins were set up, one beside each side of the balance below the scales. The basins had small statues in the middle, small statues which those revelers of that time called manes a target figure. Therefore, filling the mouth of these with wine (the latax and latage mean the liquid and the flow), they would flick this kottabos into one of the scales, completing it, spitting it out, emptying it, and they called the whole instrument by this name. If, therefore, the scale dropped from the force of the wine and struck the manas on the head with a ringing sound, the reveler seemed to his companions to be one of the noble ones. But if not, he received much laughter, as a weakling.