 
 <prompt> ```Who be the person wey dem compare Dionysus with? Based on di last question, write one context wey contain di answer. E fit be 1 - 20 sentences. Context:``` <response>: While di new plebeian nobility dey make social, political and religious inroads 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 for dis enthusiastic, unofficial Bacchanalia cults dey show as moral outrage for their supposed subversion, and e follow by ferocious suppression. Much later, one statue of Marsyas, di silen of Dionysus wey Apollo flay, come be one 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. 