Religion
Book IX, 368: On Beer
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Who and whence art thou, Dionysus? For, by the true Bacchus, I know thee not: I know only the son of Zeus. He smells of nectar, but thou of billy-goat. Did the Celts for lack of grapes make thee out of corn? Then thou shouldst be called Demetrius, not Dionysus, being born of corn, rather than of the fire, and Bromus rather than Bromius.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Emperor, Julian the. “Book IX, 368: On Beer.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/julian-emperor/1/.
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