CATAGOGIA, or feast of the return, a time of public rejoicing and festivity at Eryx in Sicily, to commemorate the return of Aphrodite (Venus), who was supposed at the feast of the Anagogia to go over to Africa accompanied by all the pigeons of the neighbourhood. At the return of the pigeons nine days after, the whole district, it is said, smelled of butter, which was regarded as a sign that the goddess had returned. (Elian, Hist. An. iv.; V. H. i.; Athen. ix.)