Glossary
- Bacchus: the Roman name for Dionysius, the Greek god of wine
- Caecilia Secundina: the name of the woman for whom the tablet was written
- Corybantes: a dancing religious order that worshipped the Phrygian goddess Cybele with drumming and dancing and whose members made up the nine dancers who venerated Rhea
- Curetes: also Corybantes, a dancing religious order
- Demeter: the goddess of agriculture and the mother of Persephone
- Dionysus: the god of wine and festivity
- Euboleus: originally a god of plowing; he becomes a swineherd who witnesses Persephone’s abduction.
- Euclês: a common Greek name that may have been chosen for its euphony in the context
- frankincense: an aromatic resin used in perfumes and incense
- Hades: either the underworld itself or the god of the underworld
- Jove: Zeus
- Mars: the god of war
- myrrh: an aromatic resin, at times more valuable than gold
- Persephone: the wife of Hades
- Phanes: a mystic god of procreation
- Pluto: that is, the god Hades
- Priapus: the...
