Note 968 — Chapter VIII · DIONYSOS.
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This was first, I believe, observed by Dr Head (Hist. Num. p. 176). In discussing the coinage of Lete in Macedonia he says: ‘The coin types all refer to the orgiastic rites practised in the worship of the mountain Bacchus, which originated in the country of the Satrae or Satyrs’ (Herod. VII. 111).