[20] Cf. Bergk, Poetae Lyrici Graeci⁴, II, 404, fr. 77:
ὡς Διονύσοι’ ἄνακτος καλὸν ἐξάρξαι μέλος
οἶδα διθύραμβον, οἴνῳ συγκεραυνωθεὶς φρένας.
[21] Cf. ibid., III, 559, fr. 1, vs. 16.
[22] Cf. Olymp. XIII, 18 f.:
ταὶ Διονύσου πόθεν ἐξέφανεν
σὺν βοηλάτᾳ χάριτες διθυράμβῳ;
Βοηλάτᾳ is usually explained by reference to the ox prize, cf. schol. Plato, Republic, 394C: εὑρεθῆναι μὲν τὸν διθύραμβον ἐν Κορίνθῳ ὑπὸ Ἀρίονός φασι. τῶν δὲ ποιητῶν τῷ μὲν πρώτῳ βοῦς ἔπαθλον ἦν, τῷ δὲ δευτέρῳ ἀμφορεύς, τῷ δὲ τρίτῳ τράγος, ὃν τρυγὶ κεχρισμένον ἀπῆγον. Kern, Crusius, and Ridgeway, however, refer it to the practice of an Arcadian community, the Cynaethaens, of whom Pausanias (viii. 19. 1) speaks as follows: “And as to the things most worthy of mention there is a shrine of Dionysus there, and in the winter season they celebrate a festival, in which men who have anointed themselves with oil lift up a bull from the herd, whatever one the god himself puts in their minds to lift, and carry it to the shrine. Such was their manner of sacrifice.” Cf. Pauly-Wissowa, V, 1041 and 1206, and Origin of Tragedy, p. 6.
[23] Cf. Kaibel, Comicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, p. 115, fr. 132;
οὐκ ἔστι διθύραμβος ὅκχ’ ὕδωρ πίῃς.