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Orphic Hymns
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| 1 | Primary Bacchus fanatic, much-nam'd, blest, divine, bull-fac'd Lenaean, bearer of the vine; |
| 2 | Primary From fire descended, raging, Nysian king, from whom initial ceremonies spring: |
| 3 | Primary Liknitan Bacchus, pure and fiery bright, prudent [Eubouleos], crown-bearer, wandering in the night; |
| 4 | Primary Pupil of Proserpine, mysterious pow'r, triple, ineffable, Jove's [Zeus'] secret flow'r: |
| 5 | Primary Ericapaeus, first-begotten nam'd, of Gods the father, and the offspring fam'd: |
| 6 | Primary Bearing a sceptre, leader of the choir, whose dancing feet, fanatic Furies fire, |
| 7 | Primary When the triennial band thou dost inspire. |
| 8 | Primary Loud-sounding, Tages, of a fiery light, born of two mothers, Amphietus bright: |
| 9 | Primary Wand'ring on mountains, cloth'd with skins of deer, Apollo, golden-ray'd, whom all revere. |
| 10 | Primary God of the grape with leaves of ivy crown'd, Bassarian, lovely, virgin-like, renown'd |
| 11 | Primary Come blessed pow'r, regard thy mystics voice, propitious come, and in these rites rejoice. |