March 26, 2011

7.1. Bacchus, Iovis Filius




Iúpiter
e Sémele
suscépit Bacchum,
quem narrant,
cum ante tempus
in lucem exiísset,
insértum fuísse
Iovis fémori,
donec menses legítimi partus
impleréntur.
Aetáte provéctior
peragrávit orbem terrárum,
deque Índia triumphávit.


TEXT SOURCE: Epitome of Greek and Roman Mythology, by John Seely Hart (1853), with a vocabulary list in the back.

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