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281 On the Attic Dionysia. 281 as authentic as the rest, we cannot consider them as evidence that the Anthesteria was the same festival as the Lensea. All that Apollodorus asserts is, that the former was a festival of /^lovvoros Ai]i/aio^. Phanodemus in Athenaeus x. p. 437. relates the same legend, only substituting the name of De- mophoon for that of Pandion^ without making any mention of the Lenaea or the Lenaean god : except that the citizens were directed, when they had taken off the chaplets which they wore during the feast, which were polluted by the presence of Orestes, instead of hanging them on the temples, to twine them round the cups they had drained, kul tyi lepeia airocpepeiv tov^ aT€(pavov9 irpo^ to ev Ai/xvaig Tejuevo^. On the other hand both the Xoe9 and the ^vrpoi are expressly distinguished from the Lenaea : the former by Alciphron II. 3. p. 230), who makes Menander write, that he would not take all the treasures of a palace in exchange tcSi/ kut GTO^ XooJi; Kat Twv ev tol^ OeaTpoi^ Arjvaiwp^ kul Ttj^ X^^" ^rj's o^oXoyia^^ Kal toov tov Avkciov yv/uvaaiojv, kol ttj^ lepa^ AKuorjiJiLa^^ and by Suidas : Ta e/c tcov a/iKac,(ov aKcv/a- /uara* ein twv a7rapaKav7rTco^ aKcoTTTovnov. AOrjurjcn yap ev Trj XottJi/ eopTrj ol Kco/ua^ovre^ ewi twv afxa^wv tov^ airav- Twura^ ecTKuoTTTov T€ Kal eXoioopovv, to o avTo Kal toi^ Arjvaioi^ vaTepov eiroLOvv* The Xi/rpot again are no less clearly distinguished from the Lenaea by ^lian Hist. An. IV. 5S^ KeKijpvKTai yap Aiovvcna Kal Arjvaia Kal Xfr- poi Kal reipupicriuoi^ and Hippolochus in Athenaeus iv. p. 130 who writes to his friend : av ^e fxovov ev AOrjvat^ fxevcov evSai- fMovi^€i9 Ta^ QeocbpcLGTov Oeaet^ aKovcov. 6v^a Kal €V((^wiua Kai Tov^: KaXou^ eaOicov aTpeTTTov^^ Arjvaia Kal XfTjOOf9 Oew- pwv^. Ruhnken, who notices these passages, finds himself compelled by them to suppose, either that the name Lenaea, beside being a general one for the whole festival Anthesteria, ^ The author has an ingenious remark on this passage. Hippolochus^ who has been describing a sumptuous banquet at which he was present in Macedonia, rallies his Iriend on the poor entertamments he has been enjoying in the mean time at Athens: and as he names, not the more magnificent spectacles of the great Dionysia or the Panathenaea, but the Lenaea and the Chytri, we may conclude that these were the festivals which Lynceus would have lost if he had left Athens to enjoy the hospi- tality of Caranus. But if the Lensea fell in Poseideon, the interval including the rural Dionysia and the Anthesteria would be longer than was required for such a journey : whereas if the Lenaea occurred in Gamelion, the time allowed for the journey would have been no more than sufficient.