Let thy red light guide the dances
Where thy banded youth advances,
To be joyous by the blossoms of the mere![205]
Iacchus was the name by which Dionysos was known at Eleusis[206].
Pindar, in the Pythian Ode, refers to the dancing of the Thyiads at the annual festival celebrated in honour of Pan, when, according to Herodotus, VI. 105, sacrifice was offered and a torch procession took place:
I would pray to the Mother to loose her ban,
The holy goddess to whom, and to Pan,
Before my gate, all night long,
The maids do worship with dance and song[207].