...more nearly to the presence of their divinity. The custom, so prevalent at the festivals of Bacchus, of taking the disguise of satyrs, doubtless originated...forth in a thousand instances in these festivals of Bacchus. It is seen in the colouring the body with plaster, soot, vermilion, and different sorts of...

...u»fartivili of Dionysus, of taking the dis' rf •>jn, doobtleM originated in this feeling, JM • the mere desire of concealing excesses under the disguise...different sorts of green and red juices of plants, wearing goats and doer skins round the loins, covering the face with large leaves of different plants...

...under the disguise of a mask, otherwise so serious and pathetic a spectacle aa tragedy could never lave originated in the choruses of these satyrs. The desire...new and strange, of living in an imaginary world, ireoks forth in a thousand instances in these "estivals of Dionysus. It is seen in the colouring ;he...

...one remarkable characteristic, namely, that enthusiasm formed an essential part of it. There was a desire of escaping from self into something new and strange, of living in an imaginary world. Hence probably it was that the Greek drama arose out of the worship of Bacchus. Another point worthy...

...satyrs, doubtless originated in the desire to approach more nearly to the presence of their divinity. The desire of escaping from self into something new and strange, of living in au imaginary world, broke forth in a thousand instances in those festivals. It was seen in the coloring...

...him into vegetation, and branch off into a variety of beautiful or grotesque forms), who were ever present to the fancy of the Greeks, as a convenient...colouring the body with plaster, soot, vermilion, and difr ferent sorts of green and red juices of plants, wear'jug goats and deer skins round the loins,...

...an impassioned sympathy with the events of nature, in connexion with the course of the seasons. .... The desire of escaping from self, into something new...forth in a thousand instances in these festivals of Bacchus."— Müll. Hist. Gr. Lit. i. 389. * As the word фav\¿^fpov has been sometimes misThe same...

...of Rome is perhaps the last paltry and unmeaning relic. ' When,' as the learned O. Miiller says, ' the desire of escaping from self into something new and strange, of living in an imaginary world, broke forth in a thousand ways ; not merely in revelry and solemn, though fantastic songs, but in a...

...satyrs, doubtless originated in the desire to approach more nearly to the presence of then> divinity. The desire of escaping from self into something new and strange, of living in an imaginary world, broke forth in a thousand instances in those festivals. It was seen in the coloring of the body, the...

...Rome is perhaps the last paltry and unmeaning relic — " when," as the learned 0. Miiller says, " the desire of escaping from self into something new and strange, of living in an imaginary world, broke forth in a thousand ways ; not merely in revelry and solemn though fantastic songs, but in a...