He delights in comparing the grace and the passion of youth with the bloom of flowers and the stateliness of trees; he associates the beauty of Sirmio with his bright picture of the happiness of home; he feels the return of the genial breezes of spring as enhancing his delight in leaving the dull plains of phrygia, and in hastening to visit the famous cities of Asia.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
Persia and phrygia, Commagene and Egypt, every region from the Sahara to Cumberland, were adding to the pantheon.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
And, although it is a subject of debate, the taurobolium, that baptism of blood which was the most impressive rite of the later paganism, was, in all probability, early borrowed by Mithra from the ritual of phrygia.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill