Note 1072 — Chapter VIII · DIONYSOS. (continued 2)

Ammian. Marcell. 26. 8. 2: est autem sabaia ex ordeo vel frumento in liquorem conversis paupertinus in Illyrico potus. O. Schrader, Reallexikon p. 89, points out that the derivation of Sabazios from sabaia is possible, if the view of Kretschmer (Einleitung p. 195) be accepted that Sabazios represents an earlier Savadios; he compares the old Gallic divinity Braciaca ‘God of Malt.’ Mr A. B. Cook kindly drew my attention to the remark of De Vit in his edition of Forcellini’s Lexicon, s.v. sabaia: ‘unde etiam zabaion vulgo apud nostrates’ (Venetos?).