XXXV. 1. That, however, he Ib the same aa Dionyaos

— who should know better than thou thyself, O Kka, who art Archi-charila^ of the Thyiadee at Delphi,
1 Ab oonnected with iS^, the Nune of all, and identified hj some with the Primal Earth ; and so signified by the woid-pUj IV^ and tiB^wv/Uphiw (" nursing "^
* The word-play runB : ap-oiw-ia, san-onf-ia, in-ion, Aii^-aloi, Aiu-ai.
' The most eminent of the Greek logographers ; fl. 55a-M4 acL
* f 5^0^f Mf— prohably another word-play, hntrmi and kmtirU,
* The text reads iipxucKk — an apparently impossible oolIeetioB of letters. As no one has so far purged the reading; I would suggest x^^» or ipx^'xip^^^' Stending (in Roecher, jlv.) reminds us of the myth of the orphan maid Charila, who dnnng a famine begged alms at the gate of the palace of the King of ancient Delphi ; the King not only refused her, but droTe her away slapping her face with his shoe. Whereupon tlie little maid for shame hanged herself. After the famine was Cfwvt tlia Oracle decreed an atonement for her death. And ao eveiy nine years an effigy made to represent Charila was done to death, and then carried off by the leader of the Thyiades (or priestesses of Bacchus^ and buried, with a rope round its naek, in a gorge. Cf. Harrison (Jane K\ PraUgnmanm to tk§ Siuig ^
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and wast dedicated to the Osiriaca before thou wert bom?^
But if for the sake of others we must quote testi- monies, let us leave the things that must not be spoken of in their proper place.
2. The rites, however, which the priests perform in burning the Apis, when they transport its body on a raft, in no way fall short of a Bacchic Orgy. For they put on fawn-skins and carry thymuses,' and shout and dance just like those inspired at celebrations of the Mysteries of Dionysus.
3. Wherefore many of the Greeks make Dionysus also bull-formed; while the women of the Eleians invoke him praying "the god with the bull's foot to come" to them.
4. The Argives, moreover, give Dionysus the epithet of *' bull-bom," and they call him up out of the water with the sound of trumpets, casting a lamb into the abyss for the Gate-keeper.' The trumpets they hide in thyrsi, as Socrates has said in his ''[Books] on Bites."*
5. The Titanic [Passions] also and the [Dionysian] ITight-rites agree with what we are told about the tearings-in-pieces and revivings and palingeneses of Osiris ; and similarly the [stories] of the burials.
Oreek Beligion (Cambridge, 1903X p. 106. As Klea was leader of the Thyiades, this office fell to her ; it may, therefore, even be that her name is some play on Charila. 1 Lit., " from father and mother."
* Symbolic wands, generally cane-hke or knotted like a bamboo, and sometimes wreathed in ivy and vine leaves, with a pine-cone at top.
* MtQler, iv. 496. This was probably Socrates of Cos, who is known to have been the author of a work entitled 'LwiKk'tieus 9%&p {$,g. Dion. Laert, iL 4), meaning either ^ Prayers to the Qods," or " Surnames of the Qods."
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6. For both Egrptdans point to kmfas of Onn everywhere, as has been said*^ and [also] DdpfaiiDB believe the relics of Dionysus are deposited with tfaaoi by the side of the Oracle, and the Holy Ones offiar an offering, of which we must not speak, in the fane of Apollo, when the Thyiadee awake ''Him of the winnowing fan."
7. And that Greeks consider Dionysos to be lord and prince not only of wine, but of every moist nature, Pindar witnesses sufficiently when he sings :
MaygladBome Didnysiii maks the paitange of treee to grov—
Pore light of aatumiL*
8. For which cause also they who give worship to Osiris are forbidden to destroy a cultivated trae or to stop up a water-source.
Thb Theoby of th« Phtbxcists RnuinD