{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/hoo/hoo35.htm","path":"cla/hoo/hoo35.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/hoo/hoo35.htm","text":"LEAPING Curetes, who with dancing feet\n And circling measures, armed footsteps beat:\n Whose bosom's mad, fanatic transports fire,\n Who move in rythm to the founding lyre:\n Who traces deaf when lightly leaping tread,\n Arm bearers, strong defenders, rulers dread:\n Propitious omens, guards of Proserpine\u00a0*,\n Preserving rites, mysterious and divine\n Come, and benevolent my words attend,\n (In herds rejoicing), and my life defend. 10\n156:* Proclus calls the Curetes, guards of Proserpine, lib. vi. Theol. Plat. p. 383.","title":"The Initiations of Orpheus: XXX: To the Curetes","type":"page"}