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For phalli at the Greek Dionysia cf. Farnell, G. C. v. 125, and Aristoph. Ach. 260-1. For their meaning, as assisting the powers of nature by sympathetic magic, cf. E. B.11 s. v. Phallicism.

νεῦον strictly should be a gen. absolute; but as τὸ αἰδοῖον is a part of the ἀγάλματα, it stands in loose apposition; cf. i. 52 n.

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