(The ~Bassareu/s~ was generally described as bearded and even _senili specie_, like the representation of Dionysos himself in the oldest Greek art: Macr. i, 18, 9.) If ~Bassareu/s~ means "the wearer of the long fox-skin" we should be strongly reminded of the--also Thracian--god ~_Za/lmolxis_ (Za/lmoxis)~, whose name was derived from ~zalmo/s = dora\ a/rktou~ (Porph., _VP._ 14, though this comes only from Antonius Diogenes 6), and probably means "he who is cloaked in the bearskin" (see Fick, _Spracheinh. d. Indog. Europ._, p. 418; Hehn, _Culturpflanz._ 428 E.T.).--~Gi/gôn~ a name of Dionysos, _EM._ 231, 28: perhaps a name given to the god in the city Gigonos mentioned in the same passage, and the ~a/kra Gi/gônis~ at the western end of the Thracian Chalkidike.--_EM._ 186, 32, is too short to be intelligible: ~balia/; diapoi/kilos. kai\ to\n Dio/nuson Thra=|kes.--Du/alos Dio/nusos para\ Pai/osin~, Hesych.] [11\8: At any rate the people whom Thuc., Ephoros, and others call Thracians and regarded as having been once settled in Phokis, Boeotia, etc., are undoubtedly to be considered Thracians--and not the impossibly honest and exemplary people, a creation of the fancy, the "Thracians of the Muses", alleged to be quite distinct from the real Thracian peoples, of whom we have heard so much since K. O. {269} Müller (_Orchom._ 379 ff.) introduced the idea. Antiquity only knew of one kind of Thracian. In the Homeric poems they are not so different from the Greeks in civilization as they were in later times, when we know them from the accounts of Herod. and Xen. For all that they are the same people. They seem in the course of time to have degenerated, or rather they have not shared in the progress made by others and so have remained backward (even behind their Phrygian relatives who wandered to Asia Minor and achieved a higher culture under Semitic influence). In fact, like the Keltoi, they were never able to get beyond a condition of semi-civilization.] [12\8: ~mani/as epagôgo\n homokla/n~. Aesch. in the ~Êdônoi/~ ap. Str. 470-1 (_fr._ 57), is the locus classicus for the music in the _Thracian_ festival of Dionysos. Apart from this it is impossible to distinguish in the accounts given by our ancient authorities, between the strictly Thracian festival and the _ideal_ generalized festival of Dionysos (not the mitigated ceremonial actually used in the festival in Greece. They merge completely into each other.] [13\8: ~saba/zein = eua/zein~, Schol. Ar., _Av._ 874; _Lys._ 388.] [14\8: ~hai Ba/kchai sigô=sin~. Diogen., _Prov._ iii, 43.]