Note 105 — ON ABSTINENCE FROM ANIMAL FOOD. BOOK THE FOURTH.
Thomas Taylor translation
Zagreus is an epithet of Bacchus. Wodhull, however, from whose translation of Euripides the above lines are taken, is greatly mistaken in saying, that “it is evident from the hymns of Orpheus that Zagreus was a name given to Bacchus at his sacred rites.” For the word Ζαγρευς (Zagreus) is not to be found either in the hymns of Orpheus, or in any other of the Orphic writings that are extant.