his nunc pro meritis Baccho caper omnibus aris caeditur et virides discindunt ore chelydros qui Bromium placare volunt, quod et ebria iamtunc ante oculos regis satyrorum insania fecit, et fecisse reor stimulis furialibus ipsas maenadas inflammante mero in scelus omne rotatas.
In recognition of these merits a goat is now sacrificed to Bacchus on every altar, and they that would propitiate Bromius tear green snakes with their mouths, as even at that time the mad-drunk satyrs did before their kings eyes and, I dare say, the maenads did too in their frenzied excitement, when the wine set them afire and whirled them into every sort of sin.
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