Demosthenes in the [speech] For Ktesiphon [writes]: "those crowned with fennel and white-poplar."[1] Those celebrating the Bacchic rites used to be crowned with white-poplar because the plant is from the nether world and the Dionysos of Persephone, too, is from the nether world. He says[2] that the white-poplar grew by the [river] Acheron, which is why in Homer it is called acherois.[3]