HYMN TO DIONYSUS

THE occasion for this hymn was no doubt some festival of Dionysus; the singer hopes to be present for many successive years. It can hardly have been recited at the Brauronia, as Baumeister supposes, for this festival was held every four years, whereas ἐς ὥρας naturally implies an annual rite (see on 12).

kissoko/mh*n: of Dionysus inscr. gr. ined. (Ross) 135, of a Satyr Anth. Pal. vi. 56. 1. Cf. κισσοχαίτης Ecphant. fr. 3, Pratin. fr. 1. 42, Delphic paean (B. C. H. xix. 147). On the ivy in connexion with Dionysus see Roscher Lex. i. 1060.

*dio/nuson: the Attic form for the epic Διώνυσος (except Od. 11.325). For the various forms see Preller-Robert i.^{2} p. 664. In the hymns Διώνυσ̓ occurs in h. i.20, while the author of h. vii is indifferent (Διώνυσον 1, Διόνυσος ἐρίβρομος, as here, 56).

e)ri/bromon; as Βρόμιος (a title confined to poetry).