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licentious deities , were only mortals who had died , and who had been subject in tteir lifetime to the sam themselves , but on account of the benefits which in had conferred on mankind , grateful posterity had deified them . Here n o w they should have stopped , or rather , they should have added , to
complete this version of the story and hold them up as examples for imitation , that alth * heir ^ ysfjeri objectionable , yet the deified persons were m that these flaws in their characters were commemorated in their mysteries to show what they on to the perfection to
which ^ heysubse ^ uen ^ But , according to Warburton , they did not stop here , for he says that the mystagogues or hierophajits were accustomed thus to complete the sentence which we broke off in t ^ e middle , to give our idea completion— << but on account of the fo conferrred on mankind ^ grateful posterity had deified them , but With their virtues hM indiscreetly canbm ^
^ Let us now , ^ either to the m ^ of Bacchus , in particular ( thou ^ general ) , turn our attention to these last-named rites . The reverence iri which Bacchus and his rites were held in Greece , may be seen from the ^ ^ fo
Sophocles . We quote from the spirited translation , or rather paraphrase ( wre believe by Bartholomew ) , set to music by Mendelssohn , comparing it with the Greek s however , as we write it down , and reserving to ourselves the liberty of making such verbal alterations as may render it more generally intelligible to our readers than it otlier-Trise might he .
u Then came the fame giving Nike , the queen of victory , Bearing the palm for the car-celebrated Thebsc ; The dread strife now is o ' er , Discord ceases , War is no more .
Let the night revel ring , Music awaking , In the temples dance and sing , Praises to Bacchus Thebae all shaking , "—Antit / one , 148—154
In the next chorus' which we quote , is described the violation of the ^ Bacchic orgies by Lycurgus , the son of Dryas king of the Edones in Thrace . This monarch is said , in mythology , to have driven Bacchus out of his kingdom , and to have abolished his worship , for which impiety he was severely punished by the gods . This fable is explained by the belief that the aversion of Lycurgus for wine , over which Bacchus presided , arose from his hatred for the filthincss and disgrace of intoxication , and that he therefore cut down all the vines
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licentious deities , were only mortals who had died , and who had been subject in tteir lifetime to the sam themselves , but on account of the benefits which in had conferred on mankind , grateful posterity had deified them . Here n o w they should have stopped , or rather , they should have added , to
complete this version of the story and hold them up as examples for imitation , that alth * heir ^ ysfjeri objectionable , yet the deified persons were m that these flaws in their characters were commemorated in their mysteries to show what they on to the perfection to
which ^ heysubse ^ uen ^ But , according to Warburton , they did not stop here , for he says that the mystagogues or hierophajits were accustomed thus to complete the sentence which we broke off in t ^ e middle , to give our idea completion— << but on account of the fo conferrred on mankind ^ grateful posterity had deified them , but With their virtues hM indiscreetly canbm ^
^ Let us now , ^ either to the m ^ of Bacchus , in particular ( thou ^ general ) , turn our attention to these last-named rites . The reverence iri which Bacchus and his rites were held in Greece , may be seen from the ^ ^ fo
Sophocles . We quote from the spirited translation , or rather paraphrase ( wre believe by Bartholomew ) , set to music by Mendelssohn , comparing it with the Greek s however , as we write it down , and reserving to ourselves the liberty of making such verbal alterations as may render it more generally intelligible to our readers than it otlier-Trise might he .
u Then came the fame giving Nike , the queen of victory , Bearing the palm for the car-celebrated Thebsc ; The dread strife now is o ' er , Discord ceases , War is no more .
Let the night revel ring , Music awaking , In the temples dance and sing , Praises to Bacchus Thebae all shaking , "—Antit / one , 148—154
In the next chorus' which we quote , is described the violation of the ^ Bacchic orgies by Lycurgus , the son of Dryas king of the Edones in Thrace . This monarch is said , in mythology , to have driven Bacchus out of his kingdom , and to have abolished his worship , for which impiety he was severely punished by the gods . This fable is explained by the belief that the aversion of Lycurgus for wine , over which Bacchus presided , arose from his hatred for the filthincss and disgrace of intoxication , and that he therefore cut down all the vines