 
 <prompt> Wetin di statue of Marsyas represent? Based on di previous question, write a context wey contain di answer. E fit be 1 - 20 sentences. Context: <response>: While di new plebeian nobility dey make social, political and religious moves for traditionally patrician areas, their electorate dey maintain their distinctive political traditions and religious cults. During di Punic crisis, popular cult to Dionysus come out from southern Italy; Dionysus come dey equated with Father Liber, di inventor of plebeian augury and personification of plebeian freedoms, and with Roman Bacchus. Official consternation at dis enthusiastic, unofficial Bacchanalia cults dey show as moral outrage at their supposed subversion, and e follow by ferocious suppression. Much later, a statue of Marsyas, di silen of Dionysus wey Apollo flay, come be focus of brief symbolic resistance to Augustus' censorship. Augustus himself claim di patronage of Venus and Apollo; but his settlement dey appeal to all classes. Where loyalty dey implicit, no divine hierarchy need be politically enforced; Liber's festival dey continue. 