Note 1243 — Chapter X · ORPHIC MYSTERIES.
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Nonnus may have based his poem on the Βασσαρικά of Dionysius, to which it seems possible that the fragments recently discovered of an epic poem dealing with Bacchic subjects belong. These fragments contain a curious account of the slaying and eating of a human victim disguised as a stag. See Mr Kenyon in Herwerden’s Album Gratulatorium and Dr Ludwich, ‘Das Papyros-Fragment eines Dionysos-Epos’ (Berl. Philolog. Wochenschrift, Jan. 3, 1903, p. 27).