. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . No. 11. struments was admitted to privateparties; the harp of four, six, seven, totv?enty-two strings ; the guitar of three ;the lyre of five, seven, ten, and eighteenstrings; the double-pipe, the flute, the have been mostly used by the minstrelsof certain deitie
. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . No. 11. struments was admitted to privateparties; the harp of four, six, seven, totv?enty-two strings ; the guitar of three ;the lyre of five, seven, ten, and eighteenstrings; the double-pipe, the flute, the have been mostly used by the minstrelsof certain deities. The lyres were ofvery varied sharp tone, and they maybe supposed to answer to the nabl,sambuc, and ten -stringed ashur ofthe Jews. The varieties of lyres inNos. IV. v., and VI. may serve to. No. IV. square and the round tambourine, thecrotala or wooden clappers, were verycommon there; but cymbals appear to illustrate some of the numerous instru-ments mentioned by Julius Pollux (), Athenieus ! iv. 25), and other ancientwritei-s. The sistrum was peculiarly a Chap. 49. THE WOESHIP OF BACCHUS, 77 ceive, have been well acquainted with it. He it was who intro-duced into Greece the name of Bacchus, the ceremonial of hisworship, and the procession of the phallus. He did not, however,so completely apprehend the whole doctrine as to be able to com-municate it entirely, but various sages since his time have carriedout his teaching to greater perfection. Still it is certain thatMelampus introduced the phallus, and that the Greeks learntfrom him the ceremonies which they now practise. I thereforemaintain that Melampus, who was a wise man, and had acquiredthe art of divination, having become acquainted with the Avorshipof Bacchus through knowledge derived from Egypt, introducedit i
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