So spake Zeus the counsellor, and nodded with his head. Be gracious, Eiraphiotes, thou wild lover, from thee, beginning and ending with thee, we minstrels sing: in nowise is it possible for him who forgets thee to be mindful of sacred song. Hail to thee, Dionysus Eiraphiotes, with thy mother Semele, whom men call Thyone.
FOOTNOTES
[{4}] Baumeister, p. 94, and note on Hymn to Hermes, 51, citing Antigonus Carystius. See, too, Gemoll, Die Homerischen Hymnen, p. 105.
[{13}] Journal of Hellenic Society, vol. xiv. pp. 1-29. Mr. Verrall’s whole paper ought to be read, as a summary cannot be adequate.
[{16a}] Henderson, “The Casket Letters,” p. 67.
[{16b}] Baumeister, “Hymni Homerici,” 1860, p. 108 et seq.
[{18}] Die Homerischen Hymnen, p. 116 (1886).
[{23a}] Journal Anthrop. Inst., Feb. 1892, p. 290.
[{23b}] (Op. cit., p. 296.) See “Are Savage Gods Borrowed from Missionaries?” (Nineteenth Century, January 1899).
[{24}] Hartland, “Folk-Lore,” ix. 4, 312; x. I, p. 51.