Note 220 — Chapter II · THE ALEXANDRIAN DIVINITIES
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Dyer, Gods in Greece, p. 209. He thinks the crowd sometimes numbered 30,000, relying upon the story in Herodotus, Bk VIII. c. 65, of the Spartan who before the battle of Marathon heard the Iacchos-song sung “as if by 30,000 persons.” Cf. Foucart, Les Gds. Myst. p. 136.