[56] [Footnote 53: Libanius (pro Templis, p.

15, 16, 17) pleads their cause with gentle and insinuating rhetoric.

From the earliest age, such feasts had enlivened the country: and those of Bacchus (Georgic.ii.

380) had produced the theatre of Athens.

See Godefroy, ad loc.Liban.and Codex Theodos.tom.vi.p.