an gar hama Turoi
oikizomenei kai to Hieron tou theou hidrunthenai.] Herod. l. 2. c. 44.

[Greek: Esti gar en Turoi Hieron Herakleous palaiotaton, hon mnemei
anthropinei diasosetai; ou tou Argeiou Herakleous. k. l.] Arrian. Expedit.
Alex. p. 88.

[855] Diodorus Sic. l. 3. p. 195. 196. and p. 200.

[856] [Greek: Dionusou apogonous Oxudrakas.] Strabo. l. 15. p. 1008. The
Tyrians laid the same claim to him. [Greek: Ton Dionuson Turioi nomizousin
heauton einai.] Achill. Tatius. l. 2. p. 67. So did likewise the Cretans,
and the people of Naxos. Some of the Libyans maintained, that he was
educated in the grotto of the Nymphs upon the river Triton. Diodor. Sic. l.
3. p. 202. 203. Concerning Dionusus the benefactor, see Arrian. Hist. Ind.
p. 321.

Of his coming to India from the west. Philostratus. l. 2. p. 64. [Greek:
Epeluton auton Assurion.]

[857] Of his travels, see Strabo. l. 15. p. 1008.

[858] [Greek: Ton d' oun Dionuson, epelthonta meta stratopedou pasan ten
oikoumenen, didaxai ten phuteian tou ampelou.] Diodor. Sic. l. 3. p. 197.

[Greek: Kai pro Alexandrou, Dionusou peri pollos logos katechei, hos kai
toutou strateusantos es Indous.] Arrian. Hist. Indic. p. 318.

[859] Diodorus. l. 3. p. 204.

[860] [Greek: Indous kai Turrhenous legousin, hos katestrepsato
(Dionusos).] Aristid. Orat. in Dionus. p. 54.

[861] Cic. de Nat. Deor. l. 3. c. 23. Of the various places of his birth,
see Diodorus Sic. l. 3. p. 200.

[862] Linus, Orpheus, Panopides, Thymaetes, and Dionysius Milesius, Diodorus
Sic. l. 3. p. 201.

[863] It was a common subject for Elegy. Plutarch. Isis et Osir.

[Greek: Poiesometha de ten archen apo Dionusou, dio kai palaion einai
sphodra touton, kai megistais euergesiais katatetheisthai toi genei ton
anthropon.] Diodorus Sicul. l. 4. p. 210.

[Greek: Linon phasi tois Pelasgikois grammasi suntaxamenon tas tou protou
Dionusou praxeis.] Diodorus Sic. l. 3. p. 201.

[864] L. 4. p. 210.

[Greek: Ton Osirin Dionuson einai legousin.] Herodot. l. 2. c. 42. c. 145.

[865] The Indians gave the same account of Dionusus, as the Egyptians did
of Osiris. [Greek: Polias te oikesai (Dionuson) kai nomous thesthai teisi
polesin, oinou te dotera Indois genesthai;--kai speirein didaxai ten gen,
didonta auton spermata;--boas te hup' arotroi zeuxai Dionuson proton;--kai
theous sebein hoti edidaxe Dionusos--ktl.] Arrian. Hist. Indic. p. 321.

[866] Pausan. l. 3. p. 272. As his rites came originally from Chaldea,