March 26, 2011

7.7. Bacchus Depictus




Pingunt eúmdem
pueríli semper vultu,
quia ébrii
puerórum simíllimi sunt:
nudum,
quia
nullum ébrio arcánum est.
Furiósos cómites illi addunt,
tigres eius cúrrui subiúngunt,
quia vinum,
excússo ratiónis império,
intemperántes
ira et furóre incéndit,
ac bélluis simíllimos reddit.


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

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