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eomedies were then exhibited in the theatres and hymns in 
appointed a ee _ pan 
particularly delribed under th article Cu “Phe 
bly the fame with peas or peas 
reater. 
{5 ae from Amos, a wine-prefs, and place it in ae month 
Lenzo 
Sever — of the year were dedicated to the worfhip of 
The city, the harbour of Pires, the pees 
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any difturbance. = long as thefe feftivals continued, the 
leat dene one toa 
wed to pone his de 
ders aa ted at this time were e foveely 
fucceeding days. * "Anacharfis 8, vol. i 
n occafions of this kind, ie ie hens worfhipped with 
ate honour thofe parts of the body, which are the inftru- 
ments of oe and Lae ha the moft impure pafiions. 
The figures of them, as we have obferved above, 
ried ae in fae. of their facred ecellions to w 
hymns were fung, and religious veneration paid. Concerning 
the cb{cenities in their facred rites and ceremonies, Arnobius, 
who had himfe oe a lear ele sites treats mes Gponiae 
tl 68, 
punted on the 
nam The le city as on this 6c Gen een in e ent. Lv. p. 1 169, &c. Ed. Var ugd. 1651.) 
of complete intoxicatio ac als and bacchanalian to which may be added what Clemens "Alexs ca relates 
nymphs, crowned h ivy, fennel, and lar danced concerning the facred cheft or coffer of Bacchus, and its im- 
fqueezed ferpents, in cir 
hair, twifted them round their bodi a an 
gancies att radi attention of the terrified multitude. 
Similar fens were exhibited at a feftival which was cele- 
brated on the firft age ge a The city was bin 
filled with ges wh red thither‘in crow to 
bring the tribute of ne ings fab “eed to the Avie one 
8 pr ed at the theatre, and to be pre- 
fent at the ie. ; but, above all, at a pro- 
ceffion which Seen ne triumph of Bacchus. In this 
the fame retinue is exhibited with which that god i : are to 
Pan; fome dragging 
mounted on sain in imitation of Silenus; ne difguifed = 
f fawns, ivy, either 
drunk or ae * 4 fo, eas thee pelea 
wit th the found of inftru ments me agitating their 
dances, but holding va rales Tahead of bucklers, and throwing 
thyrfi, in the man rts, with which they fometimes 
menaced and iafulted de fpeGtators. In the midtt of thefe 
bands of furies, the eerie — by the different tribes 
erfeA o 
with downcatt eyes, 
bearing on their heads the facred bafkets, which, befides of- 
ferings of the cho iceft fruits, contained cakes’ of different 
ing grains of falt, ivy leaves, and other myfterious fym- 
The roofs of the heufes, which were in the form of ter- 
races, were covered with fpectators, and efpecially women, 
moft of them with lamps and torches, to light the pro- 
ceffion, which almoft always began its march at night, halting 
in the {quares and public places, to make libations, and to 
offer up victims in honour of Bacchus. was saaie 
crated to differen 
<a the poets had prepared for the occafion. 
the nine archons prefided at nee he aad, oe at 
bot {ubordinat cers re- 
lieve them in their funGions, and alfo gua ne . drive all per- 
fons from the theatre, or aad {petacles, who occafioned 
pure contents, Ww 
which were propofed to verieyation. Clem. 
Alex. realeu 
16. I'd, Potter.) See alfo what seu fays 
rom Var aye delicacy forbids us to tranflate. “ De 
rurpitudine facrorum que Libe ntur. ie i alia 
compitis que dicit (Varro) facra Liberi celebrata cam tanta 
licentia turpitudinis, ut in ejus ho 
Jerentur. Nam hoc turpe membrum 
— honore magno pvoltel fe sae ofitum, pring vere in compi- 
&, et ae :e in eae ne r. In oppido autem 
pee ibero tribuebatur, cujus diebus 
omnis ees Aacitiob fimis uterentur, donec illud membrum 
th 
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taal 
: : ; » Bened. 
DIONYSIACA, in pea lad was a defignation given 
to plays and all manner of {ports a€ied on the ae be- 
ci play-houfes were dedica et to Dionyfius, 7. ‘Bac- 
and Venus, as ined the deities of late and plies 
oa Archeol. ib. 1, cap.. vill. p- 41. 
DIONYSI ‘ADES Insure, in Ancie a Gongraphy, ae 
mentioned by Diodorus Siculue, and placed by him in the 
vicinity ‘of that of Candia, in the gulf Didymus. 
DIONYSIAN, or Vicrorian Periop. See Cycur, 
and Periop. 
DIONYSIANA, in Ancient Geography,a town of Africa, 
in the Bizacian territory. 
. DIONYSIAS, a town of Egypt, fituated near the lake 
Meeris. 
1oNYsIAS, in Botany, from Asovcos, Bacchus, is not~ 
an igo - the Ivy, facred . him, but has been 
ae Hypericum Androfemum utfan, by fome 
are “generally aided, | in fe inftance at 
leaft, as eae 
YSII Promonrorium, in ancient Geography, a 
mountain of Spain, on bag fea of Iberia, acccording to the 
rgonautics of Orphe 
DIONYSIUS Li in  Birgreply, king of Syracufe, was . 
raifed to that high rank, from e fate of fimple citizen, 
He was fon-in-law to Hemeettea who, having been ba- 
nifhed by an adverfe partys attempted to ale by force of 
arm3, and was kille he action. ionylius was danger~ 
ay A es ed, but Be (poe, and was ftermardrecaled 
In he procu a himfelf to be nom re 
refit the Cueoaa Shisncd a decree for ole all 
the exiles. He was foon called to take the chief command, 
His: firft a& was to double the foldier’s pay, and pretending 
that his life w 
which he 
fervice. His courfe was now.clear; and: in the 25th year of his . 
