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Apollo the artists represent in paintings and sculpture as ever ageless and young, but Dionysus they depict in many guises and forms; and they attribute to Apollo in general a uniformity, orderliness, and unadulterated seriousness, but to Dionysus a certain variability combined with playfulness, wantonness, seriousness, and frenzy. They call upon him Cf. Bergk, Poet. Lyr. Graec. iii. p. 730, Adespota, no. 131; quoted by Plutarch in Moralia, 607 c and 671 c also.: Euoe Bacchus who incites Womankind, Dionysus who delights ’Mid his honours fraught with frenzy, not inappositely apprehending the peculiar character of each transformation.
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But since the time of the cycles in these transformations is not equal, but that of the one which they call Satiety, Cf. von Arnim, Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta, ii. 616 (p. 186); Philo, De Spec. Leg. i. 208. is longer, and that of Dearth shorter, they observe the ratio, and use the paean at their sacrifices for a large part of the year; but at the beginning of winter they awake the dithyramb and, laying to rest the paean, they use the dithyramb instead of it in their invocations of the god; for they believe that, as three is to one, so is the relation of the creation to the conflagration.
