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Prolegomena to the study of Greek religion

Note 938 — Chapter VIII · DIONYSOS.

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Paulinus Nol. carm. xxx. de reditu Niket. Episc. in Daciam.

Nam simul terris animisque duri et sua Bessi nive duriores nunc oves facti duce te gregantur pacis in aulam. quasque cervices dare servituti semper a bello indomiti negarant nunc iugo veri domini subactas sternere gaudent. nunc magis dives pretio laboris Bessus exultat, quod humi manuque ante quaerebat, modo mente caeli colligit aurum. ... mos ubi quondam fuerat ferarum, nunc ibi ritus viget angelorum et latet justus quibus ipse latro vixit in antris.

For this and many other valuable references about the Bessi, I am indebted to Dr Tomaschek’s article ‘Ueber Brumalia und Rosalia,’ Sitzungsber. d. K. Akad. d. Wissenschaften, Phil.-Hist. Kl., Wien 1868, p. 351.

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