Note 84 — FIRST SECTION.

Diodorus Siculus, Bk. IV. ch. 4., says of Bacchus: He had a tender body and was extremely effeminate; his beauty distinguished him above all others, and his temper was strongly inclined to voluptuousness. On his progresses he used to take with him a crowd of women, etc. Clement of Alexandria, Paedag. Bk. II. ch. 2., Ὀργῶσι γοῦν ἀναιδέστερον ἀναξέοντες οἴνου, καὶ οἰδοῦσι μαστοί τε καὶ μόρια, προκηρύσσοντες ἤδη πορνείας εἰκόνα. (So they revel shamelessly being full of wine, and breasts and members swell, showing forth already an image of harlotry). Sufficiently noteworthy is the following passage from Augustine, De Civit. Dei bk. VI. ch. 4., Liberum a liberamento appellatum volunt, quod mares a coeundo per eius beneficium emissis seminibus liberentur; hoc idem in feminis agere Liberam quam etiam Venerem putant, quod et ipsas perhibeant semina emittere et ob hoc Libero eamdem virilis corporis partem in templo poni, femineam Liberae. (The name of Liber (Bacchus) they derive from liberamentum, the act of freeing, because males in the act of coition are freed by his aid when the seed is emitted; the same function they consider Libera, who is identified with Venus, to perform for women, because they say that women also emit seed, and that for this reason that same part of the male body is consecrated to Liber in his temple, and the corresponding female part to Libera).