5. Foucart, _Le culte de Dionysos en Attique_ (Extract from the _Mem. Acad. Inscr._, XXXVII), 1904, pp. 22 ff.--The Thracians also seem to have spread, in Asia Minor, the cult of the "riding god" which existed until the beginning of the Roman period; cf. Remy, _Le Musee belge_, XI, 1907, pp. 136 ff. 6. Catullus, LXIII. {225} 7. The development of these mysteries has been well expounded by Hepding, pp. 177 ff. (see Gruppe, _Gr. Myth._, p. 1544).--Ramsay has recently commented upon inscriptions of Phrygian mystics, united by the knowledge of certain secret signs ([Greek: tekmor]); cf. _Studies in the Eastern Roman Provinces_, 1906, pp. 346 ff. 8. Dig., XLVIII, 8, 4, 2: "Nemo liberum servumve invitum sinentemve castrare debet." Cf. Mommsen, _Strafrecht_, p. 637. 9. Diodorus, XXXVI, 6; cf. Plutarch, _Marius_, 17. 10. Cf. Hepding, _op. cit._, p. 142. 11. Cf. chap. VI. 12. Wissowa, _op. cit._, p. 291. 13. Hepding, _op. cit._, pp. 145 ff. Cf. Pauly-Wissowa, _Realenc._, s. v. "Dendrophori," V, col. 216 and Suppl., col, 225, s. v. "Attis." 14. Cf. Tacitus, _Annales_, XI, 15. 15. This opinion has recently been defended by Showerman, _Classical Journal_, II, 1906, p. 29. 16. Frazer, _The Golden Bough_, II^2, pp. 130 ff. 17. Hepding, pp. 160 ff. Cf. the texts of Ambrosiaster cited in _Rev. hist. et litt. relig._, VIII, 1903, p. 423, n. 1. 18. Hepding, p. 193. Cf. Gruppe, p. 1541. 19. On this diffusion, cf. Drexler in Roscher, _Lexikon_, s. v. "Meter," col. 918. 20. Gregory of Tours, _De glor. confess._, c. 76. Cf. _Passio S. Symphoriani_ in Ruinart, _Acta sinc._, ed. of 1859, p. 125. The _carpentum_ mentioned in these texts is found in Africa; cf. _CIL_, VIII, 8457, and Graillot, _Rev. archeol._, 1904, I, p. 353; Hepding, op. cit., p. 173, n. 7. 21. [Greek: Tharreite mustai tou theou sesosmenou | hestai gar humin ek ponon soteria]; cf. Hepding, op. cit., p. 167.--Attis has become a god through his death (see Reitzenstein, _Poimandres_, p. 93), and in the same way were his votaries to become the equals of the divinity through death. The Phrygian epitaphs frequently have the character of dedications, and it appears that the graves were grouped about the temple, see Ramsay, _Studies_, pp. 65 ff., 271 ff., _passim_. {226} 22. Perdrizet, _Bull. corr. hell._, XIX, 1905, p. 534 ff. 23. We know of those beliefs of the Sabaziasts from the frescoes in the catacombs of Praetextatus; the _Mercurius nuntius_, who leads the dead, is found beside Attis under the Greek name of Hermes (see Hepding, p. 263).--Maybe the inscription _CIL_, VI, 509 = _Inscr. graec._, XIV, 1018, should be completed: [Greek: Rheiei [Hermei] te genethloi]; cf. _CIL_, VI, 499. Hermes appears beside the Mother of the gods on a bas-relief by Ouchak published by Michon, _Rev. des etudes anciennes_, 1906, p. 185, pl. II. See also Mendel, "Musee de Brousse," _Bull. corr. hell._, 1909, p. 255.--The Thracian Hermes is mentioned in Herodotus, see Maury, _Rel. de la Grece_, III, p. 136.