{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/hoo/hoo49.htm","path":"cla/hoo/hoo49.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/hoo/hoo49.htm","text":"COME, blessed Dionysius, various nam'd,\n Bull-fac'd, begot from Thunder, Bacchus fam'd.\n Bassarian God, of universal might,\n Whom swords, and blood, and sacred rage delight:\n In heav'n rejoicing, mad, loud-sounding God, 5\n Furious inspirer, bearer of the rod:\n By Gods rever'd, who dwell'st with human kind,\n Propitious come, with much-rejoicing mind.\n178:* So called because his rites were performed every third year.","title":"The Initiations of Orpheus: XLIV: To Dionysius Bassareus Triennalis","type":"page"}