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Cadmus of
Tyre
came to this land, and at his feet a four-footed,
untamed heifer threw itself down, fulfilling an oracle, where the god’s prophecy told him to make his home in the plains rich with wheat,
640
and where the lovely waters of Dirce pour over the fields, the green and deep-seeded fields; here Bromius’ mother gave birth
645
from her union with Zeus; Bromius, round whom the ivy twined its wreaths while he was still a baby, covering him and blessing him in the shades of its green foliage,
650
a Bacchic dance for the maids and wives inspired in
Thebes
.
655
Cadmus of
Tyre
came to this land, and at his feet a four-footed,
untamed heifer threw itself down, fulfilling an oracle, where the god’s prophecy told him to make his home in the plains rich with wheat,
640
and where the lovely waters of Dirce pour over the fields, the green and deep-seeded fields; here Bromius’ mother gave birth
645
from her union with Zeus; Bromius, round whom the ivy twined its wreaths while he was still a baby, covering him and blessing him in the shades of its green foliage,
650
a Bacchic dance for the maids and wives inspired in
Thebes
.
655
The Phoenician Women. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1891.
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