313 ca.
EUSEBIO DI CESAREA, Praeparatio Evangelica, III, 11
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'But since there was in the seeds cast into the earth a
certain power, which the sun in passing round to the
lower hemisphere drags down at the time of the
winter solstice, Koré is the seminal power, and Pluto
the sun passing under the earth, and traversing the
unseen world at the time of the winter solstice; and he
is said to carry off Koré, who, while hidden beneath
the earth, is lamented by her mother Demeter.
'The power which produces hard-shelled fruits, and
the fruits of plants in general, is named Dionysus. But
observe the images of these also. For Koré bears
symbols of the production of the plants which grow
above the earth in the crops: and Dionysus has horns
in common with Koré, and is of female form,
indicating the union of male and female forces in the
generation of the hard-shelled fruits.
'But Pluto, the ravisher of Koré, has a helmet as a
symbol of the unseen pole, and his shortened sceptre
as an emblem of his kingdom of the nether world; and
his dog (kìon) indicates the generation (kùesin) of
the fruits in its threefold division - the sowing of the
seed, its reception by the earth, its growing up. For he
is called a dog (kìov), not because souls are his food
(kìras borìn, Cerberus), but because of the earth's
fertility (kueìn), for which Pluto provides when he
carries off Koré.
