Binding his throbbing brows with a waving garland of ivy;430

While the wanton priests lead on the mysterious revels.

And then a troop of Bassarids

With dancing step conducted thee,

Now ranging o'er Pangaeus' foot,

And now on Thracian Pindus' top.435

Soon, 'mid the noble dames of Thebes,

A furious Maenad, the comrade of Bacchus,

In garment of fawn-skin, conducted the god.

The Theban dames, by Bacchus excited,