PATRIQUE LYAEO dictus Lyaeos quod nimio vino membra solvantur. Qui, ut supra <111 20> diximus, apte urbibus libertatis est deus; unde etiam Marsyas, eius minister, est in civitatibus, in foro positus, libertatis indicium, qui erecta manu testatur nihil urbi deesse.

TO FATHER LYAEUS (i.e., Dionysus or Liber), called Lyaeus from ' to loosen' because his limbs are loosened by too much wine. He, as we said above (3.20), is appropriately the god of free cities; whence also Marsyas, his attendant, placed in the forum, is proof for free cities; with his raised hand he bears witness that nothing is failing the city.