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the Ephesian statues." In sacrificing, too, the? reindeer to her, it
was their custom to hang the testicles round the neck of the figure,1
probably for the same purpose as the phallic radii, above men-
tioned, were employed to serve.
143. Brimo, the Tauric and Scythic Diana, was the destroyer :3
whence she was appeased with human victims and other bloody
rites ;* as was also Bacchus the devourer ,-s who seems to have been
a male personification of the same attribute, called by a general
title which confounds him with another personification of a directly
opposite kind. It was at the altar of Brimo, called at Sparta
Agrees op&ta or oebmvvj., that the Lacedaemonian boys voluntarily
stood to be whipped until their lives were sometimes endangered;6
and it was during the festival of Bacchus at Alea, that the Arca-
dian women annually underwent a similar penance, first imposed
by the Delphic oracle ; but probably less rigidly inforced.7 Both
appear to have been substitutions for human sacrifices ;8 which the
stern hierarchies of the North frequently performed ; and to which
the Greeks and Romans resorted upon great and awful occasions ;
when real danger had excited imaginary fear.9 It is probable, there-
fore, that drawing blood, though in ever so small a quantity, was
necessary to complete the.rite : for blood being thought to contain
1 Ol. Rudbeck. Atlant. vol, ii. pp. 212 and 291. fig. 30 and 31. and p. 277'.
* Ibid. p. 212. fig. 31. and p. 292.
3 Bpijitco rpipopQas. Lycoplir. Cassandra, v. 1176.
Bpi/iW V axm\ T] Eicarn'-Kai fj Heptrerpovi) Bpifiu Sokci 5e 7j ~avTT] eivai
'Ekuttj Kai Uepcre(po!/i]. Tzetz. Scliol. in eund.
+ See Johan. Meurs. Grasc. Feriata. Sianaanyuais.
5 Aiomiatp a/taSiip et w/njtrTjj, See Porphyr. irepi airoxqs, 1. ii. p. 224. Plutarch,
in Themistoc.
6 Plutarcl). in Lycurg. et Lacon. Institut.
7 Kai €v Aiovvuov ry eopTT?, Kara fiavrevfxa e/c Ae\rpuv, naariyovmai yvvaiKts, KaQa
koi oi^apriaTav etpiipoi irapa tj) OpOia. Pausau. in Arcad. c. 23.
s-Qvopwou 5e, WTwa b Kh-npoi amXapfSave, AvKovpyos jUETC^aA.cf es tos e7ri tou
etjyqPoispcurTryas. l'ausan. in Lacon.
s Plutarch, in Themistocl. Liv. Hist.
the Ephesian statues." In sacrificing, too, the? reindeer to her, it
was their custom to hang the testicles round the neck of the figure,1
probably for the same purpose as the phallic radii, above men-
tioned, were employed to serve.
143. Brimo, the Tauric and Scythic Diana, was the destroyer :3
whence she was appeased with human victims and other bloody
rites ;* as was also Bacchus the devourer ,-s who seems to have been
a male personification of the same attribute, called by a general
title which confounds him with another personification of a directly
opposite kind. It was at the altar of Brimo, called at Sparta
Agrees op&ta or oebmvvj., that the Lacedaemonian boys voluntarily
stood to be whipped until their lives were sometimes endangered;6
and it was during the festival of Bacchus at Alea, that the Arca-
dian women annually underwent a similar penance, first imposed
by the Delphic oracle ; but probably less rigidly inforced.7 Both
appear to have been substitutions for human sacrifices ;8 which the
stern hierarchies of the North frequently performed ; and to which
the Greeks and Romans resorted upon great and awful occasions ;
when real danger had excited imaginary fear.9 It is probable, there-
fore, that drawing blood, though in ever so small a quantity, was
necessary to complete the.rite : for blood being thought to contain
1 Ol. Rudbeck. Atlant. vol, ii. pp. 212 and 291. fig. 30 and 31. and p. 277'.
* Ibid. p. 212. fig. 31. and p. 292.
3 Bpijitco rpipopQas. Lycoplir. Cassandra, v. 1176.
Bpi/iW V axm\ T] Eicarn'-Kai fj Heptrerpovi) Bpifiu Sokci 5e 7j ~avTT] eivai
'Ekuttj Kai Uepcre(po!/i]. Tzetz. Scliol. in eund.
+ See Johan. Meurs. Grasc. Feriata. Sianaanyuais.
5 Aiomiatp a/taSiip et w/njtrTjj, See Porphyr. irepi airoxqs, 1. ii. p. 224. Plutarch,
in Themistoc.
6 Plutarcl). in Lycurg. et Lacon. Institut.
7 Kai €v Aiovvuov ry eopTT?, Kara fiavrevfxa e/c Ae\rpuv, naariyovmai yvvaiKts, KaQa
koi oi^apriaTav etpiipoi irapa tj) OpOia. Pausau. in Arcad. c. 23.
s-Qvopwou 5e, WTwa b Kh-npoi amXapfSave, AvKovpyos jUETC^aA.cf es tos e7ri tou
etjyqPoispcurTryas. l'ausan. in Lacon.
s Plutarch, in Themistocl. Liv. Hist.