(Or as the Atridan matricide Runs frenzied o’er the scene, What time with snakes and torches plied He flees the murdered queen, While at the threshold of the gate The sister-fiends expectant wait.) [11] Plautus, _Amphitruo_, II. 2. 145. Nam hæc quidem edepol lauarum plenast. [12] Quid esset illi morbi, dixeras? Narra, senex. Num laruatus, aut cerritus? fac sciam. _Menæchmei._ V. I, 2. Apuleuis has _laruans_ = a madman: “hunc [pulcherrimam Mercurii imaginem] denique qui laruam putat, ipse est laruans.” (_Laruatus_ is a poorer reading in this passage.) _Cerritus_, a rare word, is contracted from _cerebritus_ (_cerebrum_), and not connected with Ceres, as was formerly suggested. Cf. Horace, _Sermonum_, II, iii. 278. [13] _Bibl._ III, v, 1. [14] 471, _sqq._ [15] 56, Nauck. [16] τἀπιχώρἰ ἐν πόλει φρυγῶν τύμπανα, Ῥέας τε μητρὸς ἐμά θ’ εὑρήματα. [17] _Circa_ 185-135 B.C. [18] Professor Leuba, _The Psychology of Religious Mysticism_ Kegan Paul, London, 1925, p. 11 _sqq._ has some very important references to the worship of Dionysus. [19] σὺ γὰρ ἔνθεος, ὦ κούρα, εἴτ’ ἐκ Πανὸς εἴθ’ Ἑκάτας ἢ σεμνῶν Κορυβάντων φοιτᾷς, ἢ ματρὸς ὀρείας. [20] δόξασά που ἢ Πανὸς ὀργὰς ἢ τινὸς θεῶν μολεῖν. [21] ἀλλ’ ἦ Κρονίου Πανὸς τρομερᾷ μάστιγι φοβεῖ; [22] Pythagoras prescribes music for mental disorders, Eunapius _Uita philosophurum_, 67; and Cælius Aurelianus by his references shows that this was a common remedy in such cases, _De Morbis Chronicis (Tardarum Passionum)_ VI. Origen, _Aduersus Celsum_, III, x, and Martianus Capella _De Nuptiis Philologiæ et Mercurii_ IX, 925, have similar allusions. [23] 1 Kings xvi. 14 (A.V. 1 Samuel xvi. 14): “Exagitabat eum [Saul] spiritus nequam a Domino.” [24] _Antiquitates Iud._, VI, viii, 2; ii, 2. [25] _La Mystique Divine_, Ribet, II, ix, 4, it is true, speaks of “l’obsession intérieure,” but he makes the above distinction, and further says: “L’obsession purement intérieure ne diffère des tentations ordinaires que par la véhémence et la durée.” [26] Multæ sunt tentationes eius, et die noctuque uariæ dæmonum insidiæ.... Quoties illi nudæ mulieres cubanti, quoties esurienti largissimæ apparuere dapes? _Uita S. Hilarionis._ VII. Migne. vol. XXIII. col. 32. [27] Sustinebat miser diabolus uel mulieris formam noctu induere, feminæque gestus imitari, Antonium ut deciperet. S. Athanasius, _Uita S. Antonii_, V. Migne. vol. XXVI. col. 847. [28] Feast (duplex maius apud Minores), 22 February. [29] It may perhaps not be amiss to point out that S. Margaret before her conversion was by no means the woman of scandalous life so many biographers have painted her. [30] Sectando per cellam orantis et flentis, cantauit [diabolus] turpissimas cantationes, et Christi famulam lacrymantem et se Domino commendantem procaciter inuocabat ad cantum ...; tentantem precibus et lacrymis repulit ac eiecit. Bollandists, 22 February. Vol. VI.