[212] Μαινάδων ὁμόστολον = στελλόμενον ἅμα ταῖς Μαινάσιν, setting forth, roaming with the Maenads: Apoll. Rhod. 2. 802 ὁμόστολος ὑμὶν ἕπεσθαι. The nymphs attendant on Dionysus, who nursed the infant god in Nysa, and afterwards escorted him in his wanderings, are called Μαινάδες, θυιάδες, Βάκχαι. Hom. Il. 6.132 “μαινομένοιο Διωνύσοιο τιθήνας ι σεῦε κατ᾽ ἠγάθεον Νυσήιον: αἱ δ᾽ ἅμα πᾶσαι ι θύσθλα”（i.e. thyrsi and torches） χαμαὶ κατέχευαν. Aesch. fr. 397 πάτερ θέοινε, Μαινάδων ζευκτήριε, who bringest the Maenads under thy spell. Hom. Il. 22.460 “μεγάροιο διέσσυτο, μαινάδι ἴση, ι παλλομένη κραδίην.” Catull. 63.23 capita Maenades vi iaciunt hederigerae: as Pind. fr. 224 ῥιψαύχενι σὺν κλόνῳ. Lucian may have had our passage in mind, when he mentions the μίτρα and the Maenads together: Lucian Dial. D. 18 “θῆλυς οὕτω, ... μίτρᾳ μὲν ἀναδεδεμένος τὴν κόμην, τὰ πολλὰ δὲ μαινομέναις ταῖς γυναιξὶ συνών.”
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