Orphic Hymn 52

To Trietericus

THE FUMIGATION FROM AROMATICS. Bacchus phrenetic, much nam’d, blest, divine, Bull-horn’d, Lenæan, 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: Ericapæus, first-begotten nam’d, Of Gods the father and the offspring fam’d. Bearing a sceptre, lead 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.