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Adonis was worshipped in unspoken mystery religions: not until Imperial Roman times ( in Lucian of Samosata, De Dea Syria, ch.

6 ) does any written source mention that the women were consoled by a revived Adonis.

The third century BCE poet Euphorion of Chalcis in his Hyacinth wrote " Only Cocytus washed the wounds of Adonis ".