intentionally done by his sacerdotal successors in the service of Cybele, to prevent their breaking their vows of perpetual chastity. This account is the most general and most approved. Others say that the goddess became fond of Atys, because he had introduced her festivals in the greatest part of Asia Minor, and that she herself mutilated him. _Pausanias_ relates, in _Achaia_, ch. 17, that Atys was the son of the daughter of the Sangar, who became pregnant by putting the bough of an almond tree in her bosom. Jupiter, as the passage mentions, once had an amorous dream, and some of the impurity of the god fell upon the earth, which soon after produced a monster of a human form, with the characteristics of the two sexes. This monster was called Agdistis, and was deprived by the gods of those parts which distinguished the male sex. From the mutilated parts which were thrown upon the ground, rose an almond tree, one of whose branches a nymph of the Sangar gathered, and placed in her bosom as mentioned above. Atys, as soon as born, was exposed in a wood, but preserved by a she-goat. The genius Agdistis saw him in the wood, and was captivated with his beauty. As Atys was going to celebrate his nuptials with the daughter of the king of Pessinus, Agdistis, who was jealous of his rival, inspired by his enchantments the king and his future son-in-law with such an uncommon fury, that they both attacked and ♦mutilated one another in the struggle. _Ovid_ says, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 10, fable 2, &c., that Cybele changed Atys into a pine tree as he was going to lay violent hands upon himself, and ever after that tree was sacred to the mother of the gods. After his death, Atys received divine honours, and temples were raised to his memory, particularly at Dymæ. _Catullus_, _the Adventures of Atys [Attis] and Berecynthia [Cybele]_.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 10, fable 3; _Fasti_, bk. 4, li. 223, &c. ――_Lucian_, _Deâ Syriâ_.――――Sylvius, son of Albius Sylvius, was king of Alba. _Livy_, bk. 1, ch. 3. ♦ ‘multilated’ replaced with ‘mutilated’ =Avarīcum=, a strong and fortified town of Gaul, now called Bourges, the capital of Berry. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 7. =Avella=, a town of Campania, abounding in nuts, whence nuts have been called _avellinæ_. _Silius Italicus_, bk. 8, li. 45, &c.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, ♦bk. 7, li. 740. ♦ ‘Book 7’ omitted from reference