Cone
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 7 anchored passages
cone · bull-roarer · cone ABCDL · cone AL · cone EFGHN · cone EN · cones · cymbal · drum · fleece
in the texts
Protrepticus
Catalogue of small ritual implements and foods used as tokens of initiation across the mystery cults.
As fit fruit of lewd parts, in the rites of this pleasure of the sea a lump of salt and a phallus are given to the initiates as a token of her birth, and they bring her money, as lovers to a courtesan, the initiates.
Are not these sesame-cakes and cones and lumps and round cakes with many bosses, and lumps of salt, and a serpent, the orgy of Dionysus Bassareus?
The same rites the Phrygians celebrate for Attis and Cybele and the Corybantes.
Elements
A solid figure with a circular base tapering to a vertex; central object of several propositions relating its volume to cylinders and to other cones.
Any cone is a third part of the cylinder which has the same base with it and equal height.
Similar cones and cylinders are to one another in the triplicate ratio of the diameters in their bases.
But the pyramid of which the polygon AEBFCGDH is the base and the vertex the same with that of the cone is a third part of the prism of which the polygon AEBFCGDH is the base and the height is the same with that of the cylinder;