Literally, "brings a cloud over fair weather."

The MSS. have Lydian. Lysian Dionysus is also found in Pausanias, ix. 16. Lyæus is suggested by Wyttenbach, and read by Hercher. Lysius or Lyæus will both be connected with λύω, and so refer to Dionysus as the god that looses or frees us from care. See Horace, "Epodes," ix. 37, 38.

Compare Juvenal, iii. 73, 74: "Sermo Promptus et Isæo torrentior."

Euripides, "Ion," 732.

"Anabasis," ii. 6, 11.

"Olynth." ii. p. 8 C; "Pro Corona," 341 C.

Homer, "Iliad," ix. 108, 109. They are the words of Nestor to Agamemnon.

See Herodotus, i. 30-32.

See Plato's "Symposium," p. 215 E.

See Plato, "Epist." iv. p. 321 B.

See our author, "Apophthegmata," p. 179 C.