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knew of no nearer parallel to the Delphic oracle than that of Dionysos
among the Thracian Bessoi1. In Thrace Dionysos had many ap-

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irpbixavTis Be r/ xp^ovaa, Ka.Ta.irep ev AeX0o?<7(, koX ovbev TroiKiXwTepov. In 29 B.C. M. Licinius
Crassus took the sanctuary of Dionysos from the Bessoi and gave it to the Odrysai (Dion
Cass. 51. 25). Later, Vologaisos, a Bessian priest of Dionysos, moved by divine frenzy,
headed a revolt, slew Rhaskyporis son of Kotys, drove out Rhymetalkes uncle of