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279 On the Attic Dionysia. 279 eKokovv. This festival of Ambrosia will be considered under another head of the subject. It is mentioned by Moschopulus alsoj who compares Lenoeon with January. Tzetzes too, in a note which amply illustrates the saying, TTokvixaQir] voov ov SiSdcTKei^ observes that Lenaeon was the name given by the lonians to the month answering to Ja- nuary or to the Egyptian Xo:a/c. The author of the Ety- mologicum Magnum (Arjvaioov) also makes this last compa- rison, and adds that Lenaeon was apxH iJ.r]vcov : and as such it corresponds perfectly with Gamelion, on the supposition that Poseideon was the last month of the old Attic year. Another remark of Tzetzes certainly seems to favour Ruhn- ken*'s opinion, for he observes (according to a reading which Dr Gaisford has not admitted into the text) that Lenaeon was so named otl tcl niOoiyia ev tovtco eyevero. But such an auxiliary must do more harm than good to any cause: for if we listen to him, we must believe that the Anthesteria were celebrated in the depth of winter. There are some other testimonies of grammarians which corrobo- rate the conclusion to which the preceding arguments lead, and which Ruhnken vainly endeavours to explain away. The Rhetorical Lexicon (Bekker Anecd. p. 235. 6) has the article /^Lovvaia' eoprrj * AdY}vr)cn /Slovvcfov. rjyeTo c€ rra fxev kut ay pov^ (jLrjvo^ YlocreLdGcovo^y to. ce ArjvaLa TafxrjXiwvo^, Ta ce ev a(TT€L * EXacprjfioXiwvo^. This seems sufficiently clear. But as Hesychius, (/^lovvaia) has the same words, only substi- tuting AtjvaLcoros for TajULfjXioovo^^ Ruhnken, who suggests what is extremely probable, that Hesychius was led to men- tion the Ionian month in order to mark its connexion with the festival, supposes that the author of the Rhetorical Lexicon, not knowing what to make of Lenaeon, substituted Gamelion for it at a venture. We have seen however that he might have done so advisedly, and with perfect propriety. The same statement is repeated by the Scholiast on ^schines (hi. p. 729 Reisk.). A variation, probably accidental, in the Scholiast on Plato (p. 167), who substitutes Maimacterion, makes for no party. An inscription edited by Corsini and Chandler (Marni. Oxon. 11. xxi) records a ceremony which took place in Gamelion connected with the worship of Bacchus, m the words Kirrwaci^ ^lorvaov* Vol. it. No. 5. N n