DAPHNEPHORIA  , a festival held every ninth See also:

• YEAR

year at See also:

• THEBES (anciently &Oat, Thebae, or in poetry sometimes Oif3a, in modern Greek Phiva, or, according to the corrected pronunciation, Thivae)
• THEBES (e 3a1)
• THEBES, ROMANCE OF

Thebes in See also:

• BOEOTIA

Boeotia in See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

• APOLLO (Gr. 'A2r6XXwv,'Airkkhwv)

Apollo Ismenius or Galaxius . It consisted of a procession in which the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief figure was a boy of See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good See also:

• FAMILY

family and See also:

• NOBLE, SIR ANDREW (1832- )

noble See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance, whose See also:

• FATHER

father and See also:

• MOTHER

mother must be alive . Immediately in front of this boy, who was called Daphnephoros (See also:

• LAUREL

laurel See also:

• BEARER

bearer), walked one of his nearest relatives, carrying an See also:

• OLIVE (Olea europaea)

olive See also:

• BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch hung with laurel and See also:

• FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers and having on the upper end a See also:

• BRONZE

bronze See also:

• BALL (in Mid. Eng. bal; the word is probably cognate with " bale," Teutonic in origin, cf. also Lat. falls, and Gr. 7raXXa)
• BALL, JOHN (1585-1640)
• BALL, JOHN (1818-1889)
• BALL, JOHN (d. 1381)
• BALL, SIR ALEXANDER JOHN, BART
• BALL, THOMAS (1819- )

ball from which hung several smaller balls . Another smaller ball was placed on the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle of the branch or See also:

• POLE (FAMILY)
• POLE, REGINALD (1500-1558)
• POLE, RICHARD DE LA (d. 1525)
• POLE, WILLIAM (1814—1900)

pole (called Kaslrw), which was then twined. See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round with See also:

• PURPLE

purple See also:

• RIBBONS

ribbons, and at the See also:

• LOWER

lower end with See also:

• SAFFRON (Arab. za'faran)

saffron ribbons . These balls were said to indicate the See also:

• SUN
• SUN (0. Eng. sonne, Ger. sonne. Fr. soleil, Lat. sol, Gr. ijXior, from which comes helio- in various English compounds)

sun, stars and See also:

• MOON (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maan, Dan. maane, &c., and cognate with such Indo-Germanic forms as Gr. µlip, Sans. ma's, Irish mi, &c.; Lat. uses luna, i.e. lucna, the shining one, lucere, to shine, for the moon, but preserves the word i
• MOON, SIR RICHARD, 1ST BARONET (1814-1899)

moon, while the ribbons referred to the days of the year, being 365 in number . The Daphnephoros, wearing a See also:

• GOLDEN

golden See also:

• CROWN

crown, or a See also:

• WREATH (O. Eng. wry, from wriian, to twist)

wreath of laurel, richly dressed and partly holding the pole, was followed by a See also:

• CHORUS (Gr. xopbs)Z

chorus of maidens carrying suppliant branches and singing a hymn to the See also:

• GOD

god . The Daphnephoros dedicated a bronze See also:

• TRIPOD (Gr. rpiTovr, Lat. tripus)

tripod in the See also:

• TEMPLE
• TEMPLE, FREDERICK (1821-1902)
• TEMPLE, RICHARD
• TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD, BART
• TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, BART

temple of Apollo, and See also:

• PAUSANIAS

Pausanias (ix . 10.4) mentions the tripod dedicated there by See also:

• AMPHITRYON

Amphitryon when his son Heracles had been Daphnephoros . The festival is described by See also:

• PROCLUS, or PROCULUS (A.D. 410-485)

Proclus (in See also:

• PHOTIUS
• PHOTIUS (c. 82o-891)

Photius See also:

• COD

cod . 239) . See also A . See also:

• MOMMSEN, THEODOR (1817–1903)

Mommsen, Feste der Stadt Athen (1898) ; C .

O . See also:

• MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
• MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
• MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
• MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
• MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
• MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
• MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
• MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
• MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
• MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)

Muller, Orchomenos (1844) ; See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article in Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionnaire See also:

• DES

des antiquites .