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The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus and Achilles Tatius

Note 26 — BOOK III.

Rowland Smith translation

"Post terga juvenum nobiles revocat manus, Et mœsta vittâ capita purpureâ ligat; Non thura desunt, non sacer Bacchi liquor. . . . . . . Ipse—sacerdos—ipse funestâ prece Letale carmen ore violento canit." Sen. Thyestes. iv. 686.

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