Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley)

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XLIX. Now then, it seems to me that Melampus son of Amytheon was not ignorant of but was familiar with this sacrifice. For Melampus was the one who taught the Greeks the name of Dionysus and the way of sacrificing to him and the phallic procession; he did not exactly unveil the subject taking all its details into consideration, for the teachers who came after him made a fuller revelation; but it was from him that the Greeks learned to bear the phallus along in honor of Dionysus, and they got their present practice from his teaching. [2] I say, then, that Melampus acquired the prophetic art, being a discerning man, and that, besides many other things which he learned from Egypt, he also taught the Greeks things concerning Dionysus, altering few of them; for I will not say that what is done in Egypt in connection with the god and what is done among the Greeks originated independently: for they would then be of an Hellenic character and not recently introduced. [3] Nor again will I say that the Egyptians took either this or any other custom from the Greeks. But I believe that Melampus learned the worship of Dionysus chiefly from Cadmus of Tyre and those who came with Cadmus from Phoenicia to the land now called Boeotia.

Further comments from W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus:
book 2 (general note)
book 2, chapter 49 (general note)
book 2, chapter 49, section 1: exêgêsamenos
book 2, chapter 49, section 1: atrekeôs
book 2, chapter 49, section 1: sophistai
book 2, chapter 49, section 1: poieusi ta poieusi
book 2, chapter 49, section 2: sustêsai
book 2, chapter 49, section 2: tois Hellêsi
book 2, chapter 49, section 2: neôsti
book 2, chapter 49, section 3: kaleomenên

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
417 [Fortsetzung.]

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
550 [A. Substantivsätze, durch hoti und hôs, dass, eingeleitet).]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone:
* [162-331]

Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
685 [Infinitive in Indirect Discourse.]
807 [Simple Infinitive and Infinitive with tou, after Verbs of Hindrance, etc.]
706 [hopôs, ho, houneka, and hothouneka, in Indirect Quotations.]

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