[184] When Athens sent forth an army, the soldiers were usually ordered to assemble at some particular spot with provisions for three days.
[185] These feasts were also called the Anthesteria or Lenaea; the Lenaeum was a temple to Bacchus, erected outside the city. They took place during the month Anthesterion (February).
[186] A celebrated athlete from Croton and a victor at Olympia; he was equally good as a runner and at the 'five exercises' ([Greek: pentathlon.]).
[187] He had been Archon at the time of the battle of Marathon.
[188] A sacred formula, pronounced by the priest before offering the sacrifice ([Greek: kan_ephoria]).
[189] The maiden who carried the basket filled with fruits at the Dionysia in honour of Bacchus.
[190] The emblem of the fecundity of nature; it consisted of a representation, generally grotesquely exaggerated, of the male genital organs; the phallophori crowned with violets and ivy and their faces shaded with green foliage, sang improvised airs, called 'Phallics,' full of obscenity and suggestive 'double entendres.'
[191] The most propitious moment for Love's gambols, observes the scholiast.
[192] Married women did not join in the processions.
[193] The god of generation, worshipped in the form of a phallus.