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Dysaules the father of Eubouleus and Triptolemos1. It is, I think,
fairly safe to conclude that Baubo was an Orphic goddess of the

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Underworld. I suggest that she was the 'Mistress' mentioned in
the Orphist's solemn formula:

I have passed beneath the bosom of the Mistress, the Queen of the Under-
world 2.

logus 1S93 Hi. 2 n. 6 — JCleine Schriften Leipzig and Berlin 1911 p. 12611. 3 and L. Bloch
in Philologus 1893 lii. 577) re Kal Nitra^ {~SV«jo.v corr. C. Midler Frag. Iiisf. Gr. ii. 339,
iii. 302).

1 Pans. 1. 14. 3, cp. supra i. 212.

2 Supra i. 650 n. o, ii. 119 n. 2. Observe that the line Aecriroivas 5' vtto ko\itov
'tow, Xdovias BatriXeias is at least partially paralleled by the phrase Bav&ovs vtto koXwols in
the passage (Clem. Al. protr, 2. 21. 1 p. 16, 13 ff. = Orph. frag. 215 Abel) so convincingly
expounded by H. Diels loc. cit.

The Orphic formula ultimately influenced the ritual of Eleusis, where Persephone,
not Baubo. was chthonian Queen : see Psellos riva irepl daifxovcov So^d^ovaiv "EXX^es ;
(printed in Psell. de operatione daemoiiuni ed. J. F. Boissonade Norimbergae 1838
p. 36 ff.) p. 39 f. ra Se ye pLvarypia tovtwv, 01a ai/ritca. ra EXeiwivta, tov ij.v9ikov inroKpiveTai
Ala p.iyvtip.evov ry Arjoi, rjyovv ry AypiyrpL, Kal ry dvydrpi ravrys UepaetpaTry, ry Kal Kopy.
eTreiSy Se ep.eWov Kal acppoSLcrioi eirl ry pLvyaei yiveadai av/XTrXoKai, dvaSverai ttlos ?/
A(ppo5iry dirb tlvwv TreTrXaa/uevwv fiySetov TreXdyios. etra 5e yapLyXios Xtyerai e-rri ry Kop?/
vfxevaios, Kal eiraSovaiv o't TeXovp.evof ' e/c tv/j.tt&vov eftayov, eK Kv/x(3dXtov e'wiov, eKipvo(pbpy<ja,