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186 The Dithyramb, Spring-Festival, etc. [oh.
some in purple, some in scarlet, to keep off the multitude ; next
followed twenty Satyrs bearing lamps ; next figures of Nike with
golden wings ;
then Satyrs again, forty of them, ivy-crowned, their
bodies painted, some purple, some vermilion. So far it is clear
we have only the ministrants, the heralds of the god to come.
After these heralds comes the first real personage of the procession,
escorted by two attendants. His figure will not now surprise us.
After the Satyrs came two Sileni, the one with petasos and caduceus as
herald, the other with trumpet to make proclamation. And between them
icalked a man great of stature, four cubits tall, in the dress and mask of a
tragic actor and carrying the gold horn of Amaltheia. His name ivas Eniautos.
A woman followed him, of great beauty and stature, decked out with much
and goodly gold ; in one of her hands she held a wreath of peach-blossom, in
the other a palm-staff, and she was called Penteteris. She was followed by
four Horai dressed in character and each carrying her own fruits.
The human Dionysos came later, but surely the procession is
for the Year-Feast, et