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P. OVID'S METAMOR-

an Opinion common enough in thofc Days, butalfo Thebes during the War o:~ the Epigones, which hap-
that they were of different Sexes. We perfectly know pen'd about 1200. Years before the Christian ^Era,
the Time in which Tirefias lived, fince he was at and 10 or if Years before the War of Troy.

Fab. VIII. IX. &X. The Triumph of Bacchus^and Death of Pentheus.

THE ARGUMENT.

Pentheus makes ajeft of all the Predictions ofTirefias,and not only for-
bids his People to worship Bacchus,who was juft come in Triumph to Greece,
but even commands them to take himPrifoner, and drag him to his Pre-
feneq. Bacchus , under the Form of Aceftes, One of his Companions,
fuffers that Indignity, and relates to the Prince all the Wonders which
the God had wrought. Such a Recital only ferves to enrage Pentheus-
the more, who goes in a Fury up to Mount Cither on to difturb the Orgies
that were then celebrating there: But his own Mother and the other Bac-
chants tear him in pieces.

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Ognita res meritam vati per Achdidas
urbes

Attulerat famam: nomenque erat augur is in-

<rens.

Sperm t Echionides tamen hunc,ex omnibus unus
Contemtor Super-urn, Pentheus: praefagaque
ridet

Verba fenistenebrasque & cladem lucis a-
demtae 515

Objicit. tile movens albentia tempora canis,
Quam felix ejfes, ft tu quoque luminis hujus

Or bus,

THis (ad Event gave blind Tirefias Fame,
Through Greece eftablifti'd in a Prophet's
Name.

Th' unhallow'd Pentheus only durft deride
The cheated Poeple, and their Eyelefs Guide.
To whom the Prophet in his Fury faid,
Shaking the hoary Honours of his Head

'Twere well, prefumptuous Man, 'twere well
for thee

If thou wert Eyelels too, and blind, like me:

„ For

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