Hymn LII: To Trietericus

Bacchus phrenetic, much nam'd, blest, divine,
Bull-horn'd, Lenaean, bearer of the vine ;
From fire descended, raging, Nysian king,
From whom initial ceremonies spring.
Liknitan Bacchus, pure and fiery bright,
Prudent, crown-bearer, wand'ring in the night ;
Nurst in Mount Mero, all-mysterious pow'r,
Triple, ineffable, Jove's secret flow'r :
Ericapaeus, first-begotten nam'd,
Of Gods the father and the offspring fam'd.
Bearing a sceptre, leader of the choir,
Whose dancing feet phrenetic furies fire,
When the triennial band thou dost inspire,
Omadian, captor, of a fiery light,
Born of two mothers, Amphietus bright ;
Love, mountain-wand'ring, cloth'd with skins of deer,
Apollo golden-ray'd, whom all revere.
Great annual God of grapes, with ivy crown'd,
Bassarian, lovely, virginlike, renown'd.
Come, blessed pow'r, regard thy mystics' voice,
Propitious come, and in these rites rejoice.