 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Philosophy - 1794 - 540 pages
...of Dionysus. " Vivum laniant dentibus taurum, crudeles epulas annuis commemorationibus excitantes." In the island of Chios, it was a religious custom,...tear a man limb from limb, by way of sacrifice to this god. The same ... ,J .,.i -.,: obtained * Soair.c Jcny MS. . • obtained e in Tenedos. To Saturn,... | |
 | Jacob Bryant - History, Ancient - 1807 - 530 pages
.../км»» хстм-- уЛ;;гу., xa.» * и г -т т л с ¿.XT z, кгфюг». In the island Ot Chios it was a religious custom to tear a man limb from limb by way of sacrifice to Dkmusus. The tame obtained in Tenedos. It is Porphyry, who gives the account. He was a staunch Pagan,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 798 pages
...the Msenades and Baccha- used to devour the raw limbs of animals which they had cut or torn asunder. In the island of Chios it was a religious custom to...from limb by way of sacrifice to Dionusus : the same in Tenedos. Hence we may learn one sad troth, that there is scarce any thing so impious and unnatural,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 796 pages
...the Maenndes and Bacdire used to devour the raw limbs of animals whkri they had cut or torn asunder. In the island of Chios it was a religious custom to tear a man limb from limb by way of sacrifice to Dioiuisiu : the same in Tenedos. Hence we may learn one sad truth, that there is scarce any thing so... | |
 | Eneas Mackenzie - Berwick-upon-Tweed (England) - 1825 - 538 pages
...victim, which is not improbable, for this also seems to have been a very ancient and general practice. In the island of Chios it was a religious custom to tear a man limb from limb ; and, according to Porphyry, the same prevailed at Tendos. The Lamias, who inhabited different parts... | |
 | James Haines McCulloh - History - 1829 - 548 pages
...tear the flesh with the teeth from the animal when alive. This they did in commemoration of Dionysius. In the island of Chios, it was a religious custom to tear a man limb from limb, by way of a sacrifice to Dionusius. The same practice prevailed in Tenedos. It is Prophyry who gives the account.... | |
 | Rājendralāla Mitra (Raja) - Arayns - 1881 - 526 pages
...Maenades and Bacchae, used to devour the raw limbs of animals, which they had cut or torn asunder. In the island of Chios it was a religious custom to tear a man's limb by way of sacrifice to Dionysos. The same obtained in Tenedos. It is Porphyry who gives... | |
 | John Gregory Bourke - Feces - 1888 - 84 pages
...Maenules and Baecha: used to devour the raw limbs of animals which they had cut or torn asunder. * * In the island of Chios it was a religious custom to tear a man limb from limb, by way of saerifice to Dionysins. From all which we may learn' one sad truth, that there is scarce anything so... | |
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In the island of Chios it was a religious custom to tear a man limb from limb by way of sacrifice to Dionusus. The same obtained in Tenedos. It is Porphyry, who gives the account. He was a staunch Pagan, and his evidence on that account is of consequence. 