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Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

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148 Eleusinian <strong>and</strong>dangerous employment, <strong>and</strong> ab<strong>and</strong>ons theproper characteristicsdestructive revels of desire.of her nature for theAll which isthus described with the utmost elegance by the poet :Forma loci superat flores :curvata tumoreParvo planities, et mollibus edita clivisCreverat in eollem.Vivo de pumice fontesRoscida mobilibus lambebant gramina rivis.Silvaque torrentes ramorum frigore solesTemperat, et medio brumam sibi vindicat aestu.Apta fretis abies, bellis accomoda cornus,Quercus amica Jovi, tumulos tectura cupressus,Ilex plena favis, venturi prosscia laurus.Fluctuat hie denso crispata cacumine buxus,Hie ederee serpunt, hie pampinus induit ulmos.Haud procul inde lacus (Pergum dixere Sicani)P<strong>and</strong>itur, et nemorum frondoso margine cinctusVicinis pallescit aquis: admittit in altumCernentes oculos, et late pervius humorDucit inoffensus liquido sub gurgite visus,Imaque perspicui prodit secreta profundi.Hue elapsa cohors gaudent per florea ruraHortarur Cytherea, legant. Nunc ite, sorores,Dum matutinis prsesudat solibus aer :Dum meus humectat flaventes Lucifer agros,Rotanti prasvectus equo.Carpit signa sui.Invasere cohors.Sic fata, dolorisVaries turn csetera saltusCredas examina fundiHyblseum raptura thymum, cum cerea reges

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