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[133] Νυσήϊον: the sacred mountain of Nysa was an integral part of the Dionysos legend, and was no doubt brought into etymological connexion with the name of the god. It is a mystic, not a geographical name. Schol. A says it stood for a mountain in Boiotia, Thrace, Arabia, India, and Naxos, a city in Karia and the Caucasus, and an island in the Nile (so Hymn. Hom. i. 8); it evidently went wherever the Bacchic cult was established.

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