Hoc natat: in labris et in udo est Maenas et Attis; Nec pluteum caedit, nec demorsos sapit ungues" agrees with the judgment of Tacitus (Ann. xiv. 16).

" When Jupiter had done all his business we repaired to the feast, for it was now supper-time, and Mercury bade me sit down by Pan, the Corybantes, Attis, and Sabazius, a kind of demi-gods who are admitted as visitors there.

Then did the Augustus sing to the zither a thing called "Attis or the Bacchantes," [Footnote: The title of one of Nero's poems.]

ATTIS ANON.

Fair Phrygian Attis, loved of Cybele, Fired with the service of her awful shrine, Had wandered far before his restless soul Along the gleaming sand-line of the beach.

Then Attis rose and would have sought the shrine

She moved a little under the hot glance That burned from Attis' eyes upon her face, And seemed about to wake.

Attis laid his hand Upon her arm to stay the flight he feared, Saying, "Fear not, 'tis only Attis, I, And 'tis my love that holds me here by thee.

Attis laid his hand Upon her arm to stay the flight he feared, Saying, "Fear not, 'tis only Attis, I, And 'tis my love that holds me here by thee.

Not a word Came from her lips, but her great angry eyes Dark with the wrath and vengeance of the gods Gloomed forth a hate no mortal could endure; Pale Attis looked in them but once, and then In frenzied madness fled along the shore.

Sicilian Diodorus tells us that the earth's lover, Attis (or Adonis), after his resuscitation, acquired the divine title of PAPAN.

Angelo de Gubernatis, Mythologie des Plantes (Paris, 1878-1882), i. 185 note 1. Adonis, Attis, Osiris, Second Edition, pp.

602 sq. (Sir) John Rhys, Celtic Folk-lore, Welsh and Manx, i. 316 sq. Above, p. 139. See Adonis, Attis, Osiris, Second Edition, pp.

The evidence for the solar origin of Christmas is given in Adonis, Attis, Osiris, Second Edition, pp.

[803] See Adonis, Attis, Osiris, Second Edition, pp. 254 sqq.