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| | Lecture 31 |
 | | It is necessary that this polis learn, even though it should not wish to, that it is not an initiate into my Bacchic rites, and that I plead the case of my mother, Semele, in making myself manifest to mortals as a daimôn, whom she bore to Zeus. |
 | | Adorn your garments of spotted fawn-skin with fleeces of white sheep, and consecrate the thyrsoi, marks of hubris. |
 | | He is sweet in the mountains, whenever after running in the sacred band he falls on the ground, wearing the sacred [hieron] garment of fawn-skin, hunting the blood of the slain goat, the pleasure [kharis] of living flesh devoured, rushing to the Phrygian, the Lydian mountains, and the leader of the dance is Bromius. |
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