Note 7 — BOOK I.
Charles Duke Yonge translation
This is the account given by Virgil—
Spretæ Ciconum quo munere matres Inter sacra Deûm nocturnique orgia Bacchi, Discerptum latos juvenem sparsere per agros.—Georg. iv. 520.
Which Dryden translates—
The Thracian matrons who the youth accus’d, Of love disdain’d and marriage rites refus’d; With furies and nocturnal orgies fir’d, At length against his sacred life conspir’d; Whom ev’n the savage beasts had spar’d they kill’d, And strew’d his mangled limbs about the field.