. Essay on the mysteries of Eleusis; . Villoison on this subject,is expressed in one of the notes which he added to the Recherches sur les Mysteres du Paganisme of M. deSte Croix, and which he published under the name, butwithout the knowledge, of that learned antiquary. It ap-pears that, in this note, M. de Villoison adopted the re-flections of another scholar, who had written, in the mar-gin of a copy of the Dionysiacks, a commentary on thepassage of Nonnus above cited, in which he thus remarks: Nonnus certe accurate tres Bacchos distinguit; Proser-pina^ Semeles, et Aurae nlium. Alii Iacchum

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. Essay on the mysteries of Eleusis; . Villoison on this subject,is expressed in one of the notes which he added to the Recherches sur les Mysteres du Paganisme of M. deSte Croix, and which he published under the name, butwithout the knowledge, of that learned antiquary. It ap-pears that, in this note, M. de Villoison adopted the re-flections of another scholar, who had written, in the mar-gin of a copy of the Dionysiacks, a commentary on thepassage of Nonnus above cited, in which he thus remarks: Nonnus certe accurate tres Bacchos distinguit; Proser-pina^ Semeles, et Aurae nlium. Alii Iacchum cum Semelesfilio confundunt. Optime Nonnus, qui tres Bacchos tribusAtheniensium Dionysiacis applicuit, quot fuisse auctorespassim testantur, &c. (Recherches sur les Mysteres, § 5. p. 120. SECT. VI.] MYSTERIES. 103 Bacchuses. Neither has he, nor M. deSte Croix, attended to that alliance betweenthe secret worship of Ceres and that ofBacchus; an alliance which diffuses newlight over all the history of the

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