He had inherited the nature of his father, and he exemplified the saying that the child is the secret essence of its sire.

Even then, respecting, almost venerating their power, and pondering over it, he had yet to divine its secret essence-thehonor and the law.

All this, O my brother,' continued the merchant, 'befell because the locust had no knowledge of the secret essence that lieth hid in apparent bodies.

His wild eyes, horns, tiger, pine cones, grapes, and ivy show him to be the secret essence of the cosmos worshipped for centuries as Dionysus.