identified with Dionysus, vi. 113, 126 n. 3, vii. 3, 32;
a god of the dead, vi. 113 sq.;
universal popularity of his worship, vi. 114;
interpreted by some as the sun, vi. 120 sqq.;
reasons for rejecting this interpretation, vi. 122 sqq.;
his death and resurrection interpreted as the decay and growth of vegetation, vi. 126 sqq.;
interpreted as the moon by some of the ancients, vi. 129;
reigned twenty-eight years, vi. 129;
his soul thought to be imaged in the sacred bull Apis, vi. 130;
identified with the moon in hymns, vi. 131;