" THE DUMB ORACLE Many the Bacchi that brandish the rod: Few that be filled with the fire of the God.

[Footnote 4: "Imperfectus adhuc infans genetricis ab alvo Eripitur, patrioque tener (si credere dignum est) Insuitur femori Tutaque bis geniti sunt incunabula Bacchi.

[Footnote 43: In the verses entitled Bacchi Statua.]

" A man is a miracle of himself, but Trismegistus adds, Maximum miraculum homo sapiens, a wise man is a wonder: multi Thirsigeri, pauci Bacchi.

In Naples the fruit of the soil and pleasant air enervate their bodies, and alter constitutions: insomuch that Florus calls it Certamen Bacchi et Veneris, but Foliot admires it.

Priapo sacer: et venerandi Bacchi socia apud Orpheum Venus audit.

Mala Bacchica tantum olim in amoribus praevaluerunt, ut coronae ex illis statuae Bacchi ponerentur.

The youth calls on a friend, and if "gay" is inveigled into a "wet night," and rolls back to the hotel at two in the morning Bacchi plenus, whereas the "steady man" regales himself with sober Bohea, talks of Newton and Simeon, resolves to read mathematics with Burkitt, go to chapel fourteen times a week, and never miss Trinity Church on Thursday evenings.

Facciolatus thus defines the Phallus: "penis ligneus, vel vitreus, vel coriaceus, quem in Bacchi festis plaustro impositum per rura et urbes magno honore circumferebant.