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to have been ufed as a mafk, or vizor, at fome facred feftival, on a day of proceffion, when the rites and orgies of the divinity repre- fented by it were celebrated. Malks were worn on the ftage, at d ' feafts, at funerals, in battle, and in pageants. In Callixenus's ac- count of the proceffion of Ptolemy Philadelphus [c] in honour of Bacchus at Alexandria, the ftatue of the god was adorned with mafks, chaplets, and mitres. The mitre [d, which is a female at- tire, points out the twofold nature of Bacchus, who is called Supvw and KftofQoc, partaking of both fexes, the delicacy of the female, and the courage of the male. Ariftides [/] calls him male and fe- male, and Lucian [g] drefles him like a woman in his Indian expe- dition. The mitre we know from Virgil patted under the chin, and we learn from Nonnus [//] that Ampelus adorned himfelf with a mitred fillet in imitation of Bacchus, terminating in fnakes-heads, and twitted with braids of ferpents. According to [/] Macrobius Bacchus firft invented triumphs, primus fuit anchor triumphi, for which on his ftatues [] he wore a royal diadem. When we come to apply thefe obfervations to the mafk under our infpeclion, we mall recognife the double character of the figure, and fee the perfonage in his twofold nature, in one point of view paffing for a female, in another for the head of a male. The head- band which goes under the chin is the avStfiat ptyxs of the Antho- logia, and correfponds minutely with the bandeau of Ampelus, which he affumed on conquering Bacchus. [c] Athenasus, p. 198. edit. 1658. [<] Sophocles vEd. Tyr. V. CCXII. Propert. 4. 2. 31. [/] Qrphei Hymn, p. 222. ed. Gefner, 1764. [/] Ariftid. Grab, in Bacchum. [g] Lucian, V.III. p. 76. 410. _k~] Nonni Dionyfms, lib. I. V. XVIII. p. 193. 410. 1569. [/] Macrob. 1. I. XIX. [k] Florent. Mufeum, PI. L. Vol. I1T. The