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Prayer to Bacchus, Liber

Bacchus · Liber
Lyaeus, Bromius; child of flaming fire; alone twice mothered and alone twice born; great lord and planter of the genial grape; Nyseus too, and Lenaeus and Thyoneus, whose locks are never shorn; Nyctelius, Iacchus, Euhan, father Eleleus; and all the countless titles that are yours, Liber, throughout the lands of Greece.
Fons · Source
AuthorOvid
WorkMetamorphoses
Section4.14 ff
Periodearly 1st c. AD
OccasionBoeotian Bacchantes' epicletic invocation — calling on Bacchus by his many noble names
Classificatio · Taxonomy
Cultureroman
Formhymn
DeitiesBacchus, Liber
Functionsinvocation
Spherefertility · literary