Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Pessinus” in text comm, poem 63 of E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus:
...e self-mutilation and subsequent lament of Attis, a priest of
Cybele. The centre of the worship of the Phrygian *kube/lh or *kubh/bh , was in very ancient times the town of
Pessinus in
Galatian Phrygia, at the foot of Mt. Dindymus, from which the
goddess received the name Dindymene. Cybele had early become
identified with the Cretan divinity Rhea, the Mother...
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| † | Pessinus (Turkey) | 20 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
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