[209] For the literature of the excavations see [Bibliography]. A résumé of the portion relating to the Limnae will be found in Dr Frazer’s Pausanias, vol. V. p. 495, Addenda, Athens.

[210] H. Schrader, ‘Funde im Bezirk des Dionysion,’ A. Mitt., 1896, XXI. p. 265, pl. IX.

[211] Published and fully discussed by Dr S. Wide, ‘Inschrift der Iobakchen,’ A. Mitt. 1894, p. 248, and see E. Maass, Orpheus, p. 16 ff.

[212] C.I.A. III. 1159, 1186, 1193, 1197, 1202. See Dr Wide, op. cit. p. 1.

[213] See Dr Dörpfeld, A. Mitt. XX. 1895, p. 34. The intricacies of this earlier Bakcheion do not concern the present argument.

[214] I owe this view to the kindness of Mr Percy Droop of Trinity College. It is taken from a point close to the N.W. end of the Lesche ([Fig. 24]).

[215] A. Mitt. V. 116.

[216] Schol. ad Ar. Ran. 216 Λίμνη τόπος ἱερὸς Διονύσου ἐν ᾧ καὶ οἶκος καὶ νεὼς τοῦ θεοῦ Καλλίμαχος ἐν Ἑκάλῃ

Λιμναίῳ δὲ χοροστάδας ἦγον ἑορτάς.

[217] Thucyd. II. 15 τὸ ἐν Λίμναις Διονύσου.