XXV.
Alciat, 1581.
It may give completion to this sketch if we subjoin the figured Bacchus of Alciat (edition Antwerp, 1581, p. 113), and present the introductory lines,—
“Bacche pater quis te mortali lumine nouit,
Et docta effinxit quis tua membra manu?
Praxiteles, qui me rapientem Gnossida vidit,
Atque illo pinxit tempore, qualis eram.”
Of Alciat’s 36 lines, Whitney, p. 187, gives the brief yet paraphrastic translation,—
“The timelie birthe that Semele did beare,