decent women,
fond of their husbands and families, who preferred staying at
home, and attending to their domestic concerns, to running after
the new rites; on which it was said, by their enemies, that
Bacchus had punished them.]

[Footnote 4: _Work-baskets._--Ver. 10. The 'calathus,' which was
called by the Greeks +kalathos, kalathiskos+, and +talaros+,
generally signifies the basket in which women placed their work,
and especially the materials used for spinning. They were
generally made of osiers and reeds, but sometimes of more valuable
materials, such as silver, perhaps in filagree work. 'Calathi'
were also used for carrying fruits and flowers. Virgil (Ecl. v. l.
71) speaks of cups for holding wine, under the name of 'Calathi.']

[Footnote 5: _Bromius._--Ver. 11. Bacchus was called Bromius, from
+bremo+, 'to cry out,' or 'shout,' from the yells and noise made
by his worshippers, whose peculiar cries were, +Euoi Bakche, o
Iakche, Io Bakche, Euoi saboi+. 'Evoe, Bacche! O, Iacche! Io,
Bacche! Evoe sabae!']

[Footnote 6: _Lyaeus._--Ver. 11. Bacchus was called Lyaeus, from the
Greek word, +luein+, 'to loosen,' or 'relax,' because wine dispels
care.]

[Footnote 7: _That had two mothers._--Ver. 12. The word 'bimater'
seems to have been fancied by Ovid as an appropriate epithet for
Bacchus, Jupiter having undertaken the duties of a mother for him,
in the latter months of gestation.]

[Footnote 8: _Thyoneus._--Ver. 13. Bacchus was called Thyoneus,
either from Semele, his mother, one of whose names was Thyone, or
from the Greek, +thuein+, 'to be frantic,' from which origin the
Bacchanals also received their name of Thyades.]

[Footnote 9: _Lenaeus._--Ver. 14. From the Greek word +lenos+, 'a
wine-press.']

[Footnote 10: _Nyctelius._--Ver. 15. From the Greek word +nux+,
'night,' because his orgies were celebrated by night. Eleleus is
from the shout, or 'huzza' of the Greeks, which was +eleleu+.]

[Footnote 11: _Iacchus._--Ver. 15. From the Greek +iache+,
'clamor,' or 'noise.']

[Footnote 12: _Evan._--Ver. 15. From the exclamation, +Euoi+, or
'Evoe' which the Bacchanals used in performing his orgies.]

[Footnote 13: _Lycurgus._--Ver. 22. He was a king of Thrace, who
having slighted the worship of Bacchus, was afflicted with
madness, and hewed off his own legs