[24\8: ~katochai\ kai\ enthousiasmoi/~ in the Thrako-Macedonian worship of Dionysos: Plu., _Alex._ 2. (The Mimallones _imitantur furorem Liberi_, Sch., Pers. i, 99.) ~hoi tô=| Sabazi/ô| ka/tochoi~: Porph. ap. Iamb. _de Myst._ 3, 9, p. 117, 16. ~ba/kchos; ho maniô/dês~, Eust. ~d~ 249; ~b~ 16. ~Klô/dônes~ is the name given to the ~maina/des kai\ ba/kchai apo\ tou= _kato/chous_ ginome/nas klô/zein~, _EM._ 521, 50. ~hoi ka/tochoi toi=s peri\ to\n Dio/nuson orgiasmoi=s~, Plu., _Is. et Os._ 35, p. 364 F.] [25\8: ~hoi bakcheuo/menoi kai\ korubantiô=ntes enthousia/zousi me/chris a\n to\ pothou/menon _i/dôsin_~, Philo, _Vit. Cont._ 2, ii, p. 473 M.] [26\8: So too the wild shaking and whirling-round of the head, which acc. to innumerable literary and pictorial descriptions was a regular feature of the Bacchic dance and cult, must have contributed--and was so intended--to bring about the condition of ecstasy and frenzy (~rhipsau/cheni su\n klo/nô|~, Pi., _fr._ 208; ~kra=ta sei=sai~, E., _Ba._ 185, etc.).--How such fanatic shaking of the head, if kept up for along time, is by itself sufficient, in persons naturally predisposed to it, to bring on complete religious ~e/kstasis~, may be learnt from a remarkable account in Moreau _du hachisch_, p. 290 ff., derived from personal observation in the East.] [27\8: The object of the trieteric festival of Dionysos (repeated every second year) held in so many places in Greece (cf. Weniger, _Dionysosdienst in Elis_, Progr. 1883, p. 8) was to celebrate the _presence_ of the god. This is clearly shown by D.S. 4, 3, 2, who also attributes the trieteric festival to the Thracians: ~tou\s Boiôtou\s kai\ tou\s a/llous He/llênas kai\ _Thra=|kas_ . . . katadei=xai ta\s trietêri/das thusi/as Dionu/sô| kai\ to\n theo\n nomi/zein kata\ to\n chro/non tou=ton poiei=sthai ta\s para\ toi=s anthrô/pois _epiphanei/as_~. At this time women and maidens celebrated ~tê\n _parousi/an_ tou= Dionu/sou~. (In the archaic song of the Elean women the Bull-god is thus called upon: Plu., _QG._ 36, 299 A; _Is. et Os._ 35, p. 364 F; whereupon the Eleans believed that ~to\n theo/n sphisin epiphoita=n es tô=n Thui/ôn tê\n heortê/n~: Paus. 6, 26, 1.)--For Bakchos amongst the dancers see E., _Ba._ 185 ff., 306 f., and often. At the trieteric festival at Delphi ~Dio/nusos . . . Parnaso\n kata\ **pêda=| choreu/ei parthe/nois su\n Delphi/sin~, E., _Hypsip._ _fr._ 752. And so often in poetry: see Nauck on S., _OT._ 213; _Ant._ 1126 ff.--Thracian trieteric festival: tuo motae proles Semeleia thyrso Ismariae celebrant repetita triennia bacchae, Ov., _M._ ix, 641 f.; tempus erat, quo sacra solent trieterica Baccho Sithoniae celebrare nurus; nox conscia sacris, etc., vi, 587.]