. Universal historical dictionary, or, Explanation of the names of persons and places in the departments of Biblical, political, and ecclesiastical history, mythology, heraldry, biography, bibliography, geography, and numismatics . was very commonly crowned with ivy, as may be particu-larly seen in fig. 2, and also with a garland of vine-leaves,or vine-tendrils, and sometimes with laurel. On a fewmedals he is to be seen with two horns, as in fig. 6, andsometimes with one, according to the epithet cornifer, whichwas sometimes given him. For the most part he was beard-less, but occasionally, as
. Universal historical dictionary, or, Explanation of the names of persons and places in the departments of Biblical, political, and ecclesiastical history, mythology, heraldry, biography, bibliography, geography, and numismatics . was very commonly crowned with ivy, as may be particu-larly seen in fig. 2, and also with a garland of vine-leaves,or vine-tendrils, and sometimes with laurel. On a fewmedals he is to be seen with two horns, as in fig. 6, andsometimes with one, according to the epithet cornifer, whichwas sometimes given him. For the most part he was beard-less, but occasionally, as in figs. 2 and 5, he was depictedwith a beard. His postures and situations are also various,for the most part standing, sometimes on a low stone orpillar, as in fig. 3, sometimes on the mystic chest, employedin the celebration of the orgies, as in fig. 7, which was drawnby tigers or panthers, as in fig. 8 ; and frequently he is repre- Fig. 7. Fig. 8. Fig. sented in a chariot, drawn by tigers or panthers, or by twocentaurs, as in fig. 9 J where, as the god Osiris of the Egyp-tians, he is in the same chariot with Isis, who is distin-guished by the modus on her head. The boy Cissuigoes before exulting; Cupid on the left of Isis bearing atorch in his right hand; Satyrs and Pans attending with !their horns. These two latter modes of representing Bac-chus alluded to his victories in India. The ordinary sym-bols of Bacchus were the thyrsus, the cantharus, or scyphus,the ivy, vine, and bunch of grapes, the tiger or panther,satyrs, fawns, &c. most of which may be seen in the abovefigures. Bacchus is not unfrequently styled irr«Tije, i. , on medals of Nfictea or Tiane, &c, as A1ONYC0C •KTICTHC NIKAIEIC, &c, or <rwn)p, salvator, as A in NY-SOY 2OTHP02 MAPQNITON. In Latin inscriptions heis distinguished by the title LIBER PATER, as in fig. Num. dr.; Tristan. Comment. Hist. torn. ii. ; Brand, torn. i.
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