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Book 4 · lines 1–15
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1At non Alcithoe Minyeias orgia censet
2accipienda dei, sed adhuc temeraria Bacchum
3progeniem negat esse Iovis, sociasque sorores
4inpietatis habet. Festum celebrare sacerdos
5inmunesque operum famulas dominasque suorum
6pectora pelle tegi, crinales solvere vittas,
7serta coma, manibus frondentes sumere thyrsos
8iusserat, et saevam laesi fore numinis iram
9vaticinatus erat. Parent matresque nurusque
10telasque calathosque infectaque pensa reponunt,
11turaque dant Bacchumque vocant Bromiumque Lyaeumque
12ignigenamque satumque iterum solumque bimatrem:
13additur his Nyseus indetonsusque Thyoneus,
14et cum Lenaeo genialis consitor uvae,
15Nycteliusque Eleleusque parens et Iacchus et Euhan,