Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

Bacchic Mysteries. 149Castra movent, fagique cava demissus ab alvoMellifer electis exercitus obstrepit herbis.Pratorum spoliatur honos. Hae lilia fuscisIntexit violis : hauc rnollis amaracus ornat :Hsec graditur stellata rosis ;haec alba ligustris.Te quoque flebilibus meerens, Hyacinthe, figuris,Narcissumque metunt, nunc inelita germina veris,Proestantes olirn pueros. Tu natus Amyclis :Hunc Helicon genuit. Te disci perculit error :Hunc fontis decepit amor. Te fronte retusaDeluis, hunc fracta Cephissus arundine luget.^JEstuat ante alias avido fervore legendiFrugifera3 spes una Deae. Nunc vimine textoRidentes calathos spoliis agrestibus implet:Nunc sociat flores, seseque ignara corouat.Augurium fatale tori. Quin ipsa tubarumArmorumque potens, dextram quafortia turbatAgmina ; qua stabiles portas et raeenia vellit,Jam levibus laxat studiis, hastamque reponit,Insolitisque docet galeam mitescere sertis.Ferratus lascivit apex, horrorque recessitMartius, et cristse pacato fulgure vernant.Nee quBB Parthenium canibus scrutatur odorem,Aspernata choros, libertatemque comarumInjecta tantum voluit frenare corona.But there is a circumstance relative to thenarcissus which must not be passed over insilence : I mean its being, according to Ovid,the metamorphosis of a youth who fell avictim to the love of his own corporealform; the secret meaning of which most