🏛️ Hymn 29 - BACCHUS [DIONYSOS]

Bacchus [Dionysos] I call, loud-sounding and divine, fanatic God, a two-fold shape is thine: Thy various names and attributes I sing, O, first-born, thrice begotten, Bacchic king:

Rural, ineffable, two-form'd, obscure, two-horn'd, with ivy crown'd, euion, pure. Bull-fac'd, and martial, bearer of the vine, endu'd with counsel prudent [Eubouleos] and divine:

Triennial, whom the leaves of vines adorn, of Jove [Zeus] and Proserpine [Persephoneia], occultly born. Immortal dæmon, hear my suppliant voice, give me in blameless plenty to rejoice;

And listen gracious to my mystic pray'r, surrounded with thy choir of nurses fair.